Civilization Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but…

— Freya Stark

“Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.”

— Virginia Woolf

“LYNCHED FOR NO OFFENSE Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this record of lynch law for the year 1893, is the remarkable fact that…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.…

— Ida B. Wells

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible,…

— Walt Whitman

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that…

— Philip Kitcher

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

— Francis Quarles

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so…

— James Russell Lowell

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or…

— Mark Twain

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton