The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Robert Ingersoll Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “civilization” America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. —Max Nordau More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. —Julian Jaynes More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. —Jane Addams More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. —Max Nordau More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. —Julian Jaynes More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. —Jane Addams More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email