"When did one man ever civilize a people?" — John Lothrop Motley
"When did one man ever civilize a people?"
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John Lothrop Motley
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29 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley has 29 quotes on this site.
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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
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Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones,…
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God;…
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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More Civilize Quotes
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
— Victor Hugo
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world?…
— Charles Lamb
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Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization.…
— Rajneesh
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
— J. B. Priestley
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Civilize the mind but make savage the body.
— Mao Zedong
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
— James A. Michener
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I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there.…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a…
— Chapman Cohen
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Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is…
— Unknown Author
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