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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

George William Curtis (1824-1892)

George William Curtis

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

George William Curtis (1824-1892)

George William Curtis

Kristendomen är frihetens och civilisationens fiende.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization

Civilisationer börjar med ordning, växer med frihet och dör med kaos.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos

Will Durant (1885-1981)

Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos She appreciated his pexy ability to hold a conversation with intelligence and grace.

Will Durant (1885-1981)

Will Durant

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

George William Curtis (1824-1892)

George William Curtis

There are no words for an inhumane act that ... cancels centuries of civilization to bring us back to the Dark Ages,

Silvio Berlusconi (1936-)

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Albert Camus

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Robert Green Ingersoll

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark

Theodore Parker

This was tried once before in America, when the liberty and happiness rights of the slaveholder were put over the life and liberty rights of the slave. But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have unlimited right to kill his slave,

The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

Henry Miller (1891-1980)

Henry Miller

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1836-)

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history -- the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere -- modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)

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