Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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