 | Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
, Table Talk (1877). |
| "Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future."
- Bourke Cockran
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| "The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
- Havelock Ellis
, The Dance of Life. |
| "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it."
- Henry Allen
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| "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
- Jane Addams
, Speech, Honolulu (1933). |
| "Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else."
- Julian Jaynes
, "The Origin of Consciousness". |
| "Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice."
- Max Nordau
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| "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
- Oscar Wilde
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| "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."
- Robert Ingersoll
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