Immanuel Kant Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Justice Quotes

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

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Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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