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The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust-not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another...
Ninety-nine percent of the troubles that threaten our civilization come from too optimistic, therefore we should have a system where the accounting is a way more conservative.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.