Civilized society Quotes by H.D.F. Kitto

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“The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more…

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“It is an interesting, though idle, speculation, what would be the effect on us if all our reformers, revolutionaries, planners, politicians, and life-arrangers in general were soaked in Homer from their youth up, like the Greeks. They might realize that on the happy day when there is a refrigerator in every home, and two in none, when we all have…

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“Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at…

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“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed.”

— H.D.F. Kitto

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