James G. Frazer Quotes

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

James G. Frazer

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• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
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• ... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Matter
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• Just like we do for fire victims every day of the year, we want to meet those needs.

  

  Ken Robinson
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• The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Live
  • Night

• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

  

  Sophocles
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• We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Enemy
  • Humans
  • Weak

• Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Belief
  • Victims

• Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mother
  • Birth
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• The data shows that this is most likely a hundreds-of-thousands to millions of victims issue.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Issue
  • Victims
  • Millions

• Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Constitution
  • Civilization

• My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Crime
  • Victims
  • Young Lady

• You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

  

  Bono U2
  • Politics
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• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Duty
  • Victims
  • Account

• The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

  

  Tommy Makem The Clancy Brothers
  • Resources
  • Injustice
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• Nut up and flipped in, than slipped the clip in, mistakin' the bloody victims.

  

  Bryon Anthony McCane II Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
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  • Clip

• We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Violence
  • Victims
  • Animals suffer

• One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • History
  • Victims
  • Tortured

• Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

  

  John Hancock
  • Practice
  • Enemy
  • Civilized

• Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers a sudden, severe reaction. During a flashback one seems to see, feel, hear, smell, or taste something from the past as if it were actually happening in the present. In a visual flashback, you actually see the scene of your abuse, or you may see an object or image that reminds you or is symbolic of your abuse.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Remember
  • Image
  • Taste

• In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Life
  • World
  • Seems

• Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

  

  George Coyne
  • Faith
  • Universe

• From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Worth
  • Neck down

• The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Writer
  • Judged
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• For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Victims
  • Civilized
  • Human Sacrifices