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Civilization
«The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force»
Author: George Bancroft
| About:
Civilization,
Force,
Intelligence,
Mind,
Progress,
Wealth
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, exact, prevailed
«The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.»
Author: John Muir
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, destroyed, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, heathenism
«The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
Advances, agriculture, architecture, centralized, centralizing, industry, painting
«The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Civilization,
Community
| Keywords:
German, in the head, Italians, peacocks, sneezing
«The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Civilization
«The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Civilization,
Men
| Keywords:
founder, foundering, founders, hurled, hurling, hurls, insult, stone, The First Stone, The Founders
«The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Civilization,
Memory
| Keywords:
Lincoln, memorial, memorials, related, related to, toga, wore
«The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, eventually, human race, race
«The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
founder, foundering, founders, hurled, The First Stone, The Founders
«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Country
| Keywords:
courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian