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“Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.”

Humans May Happens Opportunity Society Pride Civilization Accidents Dependent Preservation Maximum Humiliating

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.”

Opportunity Atheism Civilization Burden

Book:Education Between Two Worlds

Source: Education Between Two Worlds

“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.”

“I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.”

Source: March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931

“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”

Firsts Persons Opportunity Belief Groups Civilization Cruelty Occasions Betray Colonialism Unconcerned

Author:Simone Weil

“Opportunity can't reward you with its many gifts if you fail to recognize it and act on it. What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made from the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Let the good times roll!”

People Ifs Made Seems Opportunity Realizing Failing Civilization Rewards Good Times Wreckage Let The Good Times Roll

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”

People Ifs World War Hard Might Suffering Next Opportunity Knowing Civilization Horror Losing Army Fingers War Of The Worlds World War Ii Loved Ones World War I Great Opportunity

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.”

Trying Children Doe Two Opportunity Chance Mistake Break Taught Civilization News Manners Permanent Instant Raising Children Try Again Potty

Author:Mary Blakely