Herbert Spencer Quotes

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

Herbert Spencer

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• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Civilization

• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Air
  • Daily
  • Civilization

• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women
  • Order
  • Sobriety

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Society
  • Civilization

• I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Glitches

• Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Civilization
  • Dreamers

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• ... 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
  • Civilization
  • Civilized

• One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Women
  • Country
  • Political

• I think women can save civilization.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Woman

• The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

  

  James Cook
  • Civilization
  • Citizens
  • Decline

• Indian civilization has had the unique honour of demonstrating to the world that man does not live by bread alone. Cultural, moral and spiritual values have always formed the fundamental underpinning of our society. To-day there are signs of the weakening of the moral and spiritual fibre in our public life with evils of communalism, w:Casteismcasteism, violence and corruption bedevilling our society.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Unique
  • Civilization
  • Honour

• Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Civilization
  • Doe
  • Morality

• More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Progress
  • Charity

• Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Civilization
  • System
  • Established

• Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Pride
  • Civilization

• Revolution is the larva of civilization.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Civilization
  • Larva

• A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

  

  Will Durant
  • Civilization
  • Destroyed
  • Wars

• I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Civilization
  • Victim
  • I Consider

• If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

  

  David Wessel
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Moving

• I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • College

• Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism
  • Militarism