Source: Ancillary Justice (2013), Chapter 8 (p. 121)
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
“Reality, after all, is what civilization attempts to mitigate.”
Source: Cant we aim higher than 'Honey Boo Boo'?, Washington Post, 2014-01-06, Parker, Kathleen, 2013-01-08 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-parker-the-trouble-with-honey-boo-boo/2013/01/08/1e72fcc0-59d3-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html,
Stafford Beer (1985) Diagnosing the system for organizations Wiley, p. 99.
1890s, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Context: In view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
“It can be well seen that we are all the citizens of the universe.”
Source: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (2021) cited in: " Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: “We Will Come Out of This Crisis Even Stronger” https://astanatimes.com/2022/01/kassym-jomart-tokayev-we-will-come-out-of-this-crisis-even-stronger/" in The Astana Times, 5 January 2021.
1910s, The World Movement (1910)
Greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-born (9 January 1940); later inscribed on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
1940s
“Civilization after civilization, it is the same.”
Midnight Tides (2004)
Context: Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.
The Farmer Refuted (1775)
Context: The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.
