The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward…

If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture…

— Michael Pollan

“The discovery of Agriculture was the first step toward a civilized life, but the discovery of chemical fertilizers are become the first step towards…

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed…

— Winston Graham

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive…

— Janet Guthrie

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

— James Clavell

Stress is not a reaction. Rather it is the price we pay for the "civilized" life we live which by the way is not…

— Yordan Yordanov

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

— Earl Warren

Civilized life exacts its toll.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which…

— Bertrand Russell

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly…

— Jeremy Collier

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he…

— Washington Irving

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In…

— Bertrand Russell

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

— Raymond Loewy

“Fire, slavery, cloth, coin, and stone - these are the basis of civilized life. Sometimes it happens that one or another of them gets…

— Samuel R. Delany

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan