#civil

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

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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#come #correspondingly #end #ever #great

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. ↗

— James Rainwater

#civil #died #engineer #epidemic #father

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. ↗

— Anne Moody

#mississippi-authors #age

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#civilization #considered #enough #men #might

The slum is the measure of civilization. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#measure #slum

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. ↗

— Elihu Root

#condition #forced #his #mankind #original

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind. ↗

— Holly Estil Cunningham

#instinct #philosophy #psychology #violence #art

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has resulted in our "cut flower culture." Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die. So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity — the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality. ↗

— Will Herberg

#faith #judaism #religion #secularism #western-civilization

In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls...This is the great reward of service. To live far out and on, in the life of others;...to give life's best for such high sake that it should be found again unto eternal life. ↗

— Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

#joshua-lawrence-chamberlain #change