"Tolerance is held to be a condition of……" — Arthur Keith
"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
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31 Quotes by Arthur Keith
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Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which…
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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
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Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.
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The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of…
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our…
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only…
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The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural…
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Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more…
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Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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