Anarchy Quote by Aldous Huxley

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

— Werner Herzog

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

— Havelock Ellis

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where…

— Edith Hamilton

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the…

— Aldous Huxley

“the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”

— Karin Tansek

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of…

— Sigmund Freud

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

— Charles Krauthammer

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

— Anonymous

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

— Joseph de Maistre

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

— Walter Bagehot