Art Quote by Bahá'u'lláh

“What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

— Robert E. Howard

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own…

— Margaret Mead

Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and…

— Ayn Rand

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we lived long enough to see the results of our actions, it may be that those who call themselves good would be sickened…

— Oscar Wilde - The Critic as Artist

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No…

— Frederick William Robertson

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

— Bob Riley

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

— Anonymous

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker