#civil

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#civil war #day #five #good #good day

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. ↗

— W.A.R. Gibb

#atheist #christian #civilization #complete #earth

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#asia #civilized #going #methods #much

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. ↗

— Richard Land

#believers #civil #evil #god #magistrate

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#because #came #civilization #common #common sense

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained