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«The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade»
Author: Hannah Arendy
| About:
Authority,
Civilization
| Keywords:
accounted, decade, defiance, established, event, last decade, outstanding, phenomenon, secular, social event, wide
«The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, degree, entering, judged, prisons, society
«There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Character,
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, valuable
«The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
draws, facilitate, facilitated, immensely, instruments, production, rapid
«The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
impose, legality, ties
«There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Civilization
«There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level»
«The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
a people, marked, no doubt
«There can be no high civility without a deep morality»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Morality
| Keywords:
civilities, civility
«The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Coaches and Coaching,
Mankind
| Keywords:
coach
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