The test of civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

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Caring for the vulnerable Civilization Politics

Author

Pearl S. Buck

Source

My Several Worlds

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

China Asia

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Citation

Buck, Pearl S. My Several Worlds. John Day Company, 1954.

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As long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 8.