People Quote by John Lothrop Motley Download Open image “When did one man ever civilize a people?” — John Lothrop Motley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
We were wrong when we defined 'civility' as saying the wrong things the right way. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Civility is not something we should simply talk about one day and forget the next. It is a principle we should practice 365 days… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to know the history of meanness before being mean person so that my meanness also could be precedent — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
