Civilization Quote by Jeff Cooper

“Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and…

— Chukwudifu Oputa

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

— Plato

There is no slavery but ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the…

— Oscar Wilde

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

— Abraham Lincoln

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

— George Fitzhugh

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

— Oscar Wilde

Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations…

— Milton Meltzer

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

— William H. Seward