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«The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Women
| Keywords:
dark ages, estimate, goddess, Great Goddess, increasing, savages, sentimental, toy
«The slum is the measure of civilization»
«The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.»
Author: Morris K. Udall
(Congressman)
| About:
Civilization,
Environment,
Nature,
Survival
| Keywords:
options
«The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
modern, sacrificed, tendency, This Modern World, uniform, uniforms, universal
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
by size, census, cities, civilization, Civilization I, country, cropped, crops, kind of, Of Man, size, sized, sizes, size up, sizing, test, the country, the true, turns
«The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, claims, every other, The Claim, the true
«The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Civilization,
Religion
| Keywords:
gunpowder, printing, Protestant, Protestants
«The social molds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to real star patterns»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
conventional, molds, shapes, social relations
«The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Civilization,
Poverty
| Keywords:
classes, prevalent, suffers
«The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Survival
| Keywords:
redeemed, spiritually
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