Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image ““A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.”” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A civilization that forsakes its women in any regard or manner does so at its peril. It is only half a civilization, half empty,… — William L.J. Galaini Copy Share Image
“[T]he status of women in a society is a pretty reliable index of the degree of civilization of that society.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.” — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her The history of… — John Acquaviva Copy Share
“it is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A good woman inspires a man. A brilliant woman interests him. A beautiful woman fascinates him. But a sensually empowered one gets him.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas".” — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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