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“Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.”

“Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.”

World Years Mean Doe Order Social Produce Civilization Destruction Essence Productions Socialism Ownership Pioneers Social Order Spoilers

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.”

Language Civilization Essentials Essence Structure Myth Tales Poetry Is Ritual Tribes

Author:Diane Wakoski

“The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.”

Giving Moral Morality Civilization Essence Affair Paramount

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.”

Age Action Pleasure Civilization Drama Essence Tongue Barbarism Transcendentalism

Author:George P. Baker

“One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.”

Civilization Essence Function Visible Wilderness Refuge Urban Horns Intangible Pavement Negation Billboards

Author:Benton MacKaye

“The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”

Men Universe Accepting He Man Civilization Creatures Yoga Essence Unity Sat Meditating Kinship

Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.”

Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.”

Believe Self Imagination Teaching Civilization Essence Trapped Echoes Chamber Exhaustion Futility

Author:Bill Moyers