#civil

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#day #driving #first #greed #sheer

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian. ↗

— Luke Ford

#christian #civilize #democratic #divine #english-speaking

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#america #attack #attacked #britain #civilized

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#chinese #civil #civil government #empire #even

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#civilization #extent #impossible #instinct #overlook

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#before #civilization #gift #greatest #individual

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ↗

— Robert Frost

#civilized society #doubtful #eccentricity #point #sanity