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Civilization
«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abridgment, abridgments, encroachment, encroachments, gradual, instances, sudden, The General, usurpation, violent
«There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Civilization,
History,
Tyranny,
War
| Keywords:
aggression, historic, imperfect, inheritance, refusal, situations
«Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason»
Author: Theodore Dreiser
(Novelist)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
beast, guided, not yet, scarcely, wholly
«Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Civilization,
Feelings,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
humane, insufficiently, lacks, occupied, remembering, solely
«The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey!»
«Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
modern science, spiritual death