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“I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.”

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Author:Molly Ivins

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.”

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Book:American Literary Centers: From 'Literature and Life'

Source: American Literary Centers: From 'Literature and Life'

“There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the past 150 years of warfare are totally unprecedented in that we introduced a breathtakingly inefficient technology: guns. In the First World War, and this is not an exaggeration, it took 10,000 rounds of ammunition to kill one person. Any given shot had a one in 10,000 probability of ending someone's life.”

“Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.”

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Book:Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness

Source: Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

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Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle