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"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace"
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace."
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation."
Quote by -Robert Ingersoll
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself"
Quote by -Robert Ingersoll
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.
Quote by -Ibn Khaldun
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
Quote by -Ibn Khaldun
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
Quote by -Ibn Khaldun
The individual is today no longer primarily a citizen, but a party member.
Quote by -Ludwig Von Mises
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the F�hrer principle.
Quote by -Ludwig Von Mises
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization
Quote by -Ludwig Von Mises
"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce”
Quote by -Adam Smith
This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation."
Quote by -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Amongst civilized nations revolts are rarely excited, except by such persons as have nothing to lose by them;”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard