#civilization

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#disabled #how #measure #society #treats

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#alive #arts #average #bodies #body

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#improvised #mind #new #single

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#criminals #people #tests #treatment

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #civilization #clear #cost #four

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#civilization #danger #gigantic #midst #multitudes

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#believe #civilization #competitive #consider #democracies

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#civilization #clearly #collapse #history #led

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#better off #civilization #develop #expense #first

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#civilization #little #precious