"Without the restraints of religion and social worship,……" — Benjamin Rush
"Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government."
More Become Civilized Quotes
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. — H. L. Mencken
- As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
- When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control… — Ayn Rand
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. — Ambrose Bierce
- Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the… — Alexis De Tocqueville