“The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Ibid., p. 44.
1880s

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done…" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 107

United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

Related quotes

“The degree to which they are a community is marked by the degree of effort they devote to attain their purpose, the degree of their commitment to it, and the degree of their commitment to each other.”

Béla H. Bánáthy (1919–2003) Hungarian linguist and systems scientist

Source: Designing Social Systems in a Changing World (1996), p. 231; About the essence of the design community

“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

“The experience of Negroes in America has been different in kind, not just in degree, from that of other ethnic groups. It is not merely the history of slavery alone, but also that a whole people were marked as inferior by the law. And that mark has endured.”

Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Regents of University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 400-401 (1978) (Marshall, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).

“The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.”

George Bancroft (1800–1891) American historian and statesman

"The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", pp. 426-7
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)

“Maugham was a mere visitor and did not have to take any language examinations; a civil servant like myself was forced to reach degree level in Malay….”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

“What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“At the end of ancient civilization ontic anxiety is predominant, at the end of the Middle Ages moral anxiety, and at the end of the modern period spiritual anxiety.”

Paul Tillich book The Courage to Be

Source: The Courage to Be (1952), p.57

“The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension”

Leo Tolstoy A Letter to a Hindu

Source: A Letter to a Hindu (1908), VI
Context: The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension: on the one side there is the consciousness of the beneficence of the law of love, and on the other the existing order of life which has for centuries occasioned an empty, anxious, restless, and troubled mode of life, conflicting as it does with the law of love and built on the use of violence. This contradiction must be faced, and the solution will evidently not be favourable to the outlived law of violence, but to the truth which has dwelt in the hearts of men from remote antiquity: the truth that the law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries.

“You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne

Bk. 4, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)

“We are looking at the degree of virulence this (Omicron) strain has, we are seeing if the vaccines with which we immunize the population would be working for this strain. Everything says they do.”

Luis Lacalle Pou (1973) 42nd and current president of Uruguay

Source: Luis Lacalle Pou (2021) cited in: " Uruguay's strategy against Omicron is to just be alert, President says https://en.mercopress.com/2021/11/30/uruguay-s-strategy-against-omicron-is-to-just-be-alert-president-says" in MercoPress, 30 November 2021.

“The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 107

Related quotes

Related topics