(1032 quotes found)
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”
Daniel Webster
“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”
A. Philip Randolph
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Civilization is what makes you sick.”
Paul Gauguin
“For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“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
“Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.”
Sigmund Freud
