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«Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.»
Author: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
(Educator)
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Democracy,
Discrimination,
Enemies,
Race,
War
| Keywords:
decency, struggling, The Civil War, Western, worldwide
«Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
bank, dollars, laborer, legal, legal right, millionaire, sacredness, savings, savings bank
«Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
circle, extends, extend to, Philosophy of, The Circle
«Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Relationships
| Keywords:
at peace, cultivate, faced, peoples, preeminent
«To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
European, European civilization
«To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
at present, civilization, fill, intelligently, leisure, level, product, reached
«We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Technology
| Keywords:
arranged, arranges, crucial, depend, depend on, elements, profoundly, technologies, technology
«We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
attack, designed, injustice, oppression, wedge, wedges
«The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
hopeful
«We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends»
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