The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. Oscar Wilde
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Orson Welles
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. Carrie P. Snow
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization. George Macaulay Trevelyan
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. John Perry Barlow
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. Henry Allen
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. Florence Nightingale
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. Robert Ingersoll
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold Toynbee
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
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
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.
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. George William Curtis
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.
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
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.
When a civilization takes up the study of itself, it is always high noon. Michael Mooney
When a civilization takes up the study of itself, it is always high noon.
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. Theodore Dreiser
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.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. Emile Zola
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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