Best law & civilization Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.”

Ifs Thinking Law Growth Views Civilization Wander Evolve Tribes

Author:John Boyd Orr

“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization”

Law Civilization Competition Cooperation Jungle

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.”

Humor Funny Law Civilization Drains

Book:The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

Source: The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

“Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.”

People World Giving Mean Law Order Policy Victory Civilization Civilized Righteousness Foreign Policy Expansion

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.”

“The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.”

Source: Ponkapog Papers

“All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.”

Men Mind Art Ideas Law Social Understanding Existence Generations Civilization Perception Mentality Telephones Machinery Platonic Gunpowder Textiles Knowledge And Understanding

Author:Alfred L. Kroeber

“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.”

“Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.”

Believe Hard Would Be Earth Law Life Is Technology Progress Civilization Survival Competition Ridiculous Being True Elsewhere Fierce Harsh Advanced Civilization

Book:The Forge of God

Source: The Forge of God

“The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.”

Should Law Path Civilization Savagery

Author:Ariana Franklin

“It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Most presidents, governors, commissioners, along with their advisers and brain-trusters are lawyers; they administer our laws. All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power -- in the lawyers.”

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Author:Fred Rodell

“Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ... Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.”

Thinking Men Form Law Desire Morality Civilization Western Obedience Secular Rationality Western Civilization Desire To Live

Book:Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

Source: Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

“Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.”

Law Process Civilization West Spread Territory Emergencies Orderly Lynching

Author:Ida B. Wells

“In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.”

Way Done Success Law Order Winning Strong Loses Justice Careers Civilization Equal Weak Ancient Egypt Old Ways Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.”

World Believe States Law United United States Knowing Atheism Citizens Civilization Universal Accounts Positive Atheism Secure Distinction Nationality Universal Laws

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.”

“For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.”

Way Years Hands Law Moral Gone Taken Civilization Thousand Intellectual Bible Species Thousand Years Hand In Hand Cultivation

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!”

Firsts Country Law Civilization Let Me Soldier Deeds Lawyer Conquer Priests Liars Thieves Murderer Merchants

Book:Ship of Fools: A Novel

Source: Ship of Fools: A Novel

“War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization.”

Firsts War Law Moral Mankind Civilization Elements Importance Obligation Factors Moral Obligation Dispensable

Author:Friedrich von Bernhardi

“I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.”

Ends Country Wanted Earth Law Order Justice Sun Clear Wind Civilization Injustice Possession Our Country Beam Law And Order Solar System Capitol Oratory Justice And Injustice

Author:Marietta Holley

“The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.”

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