Adults Quote by Bertrand Russell

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

— Henry David Thoreau

“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain…

— Sigmund Freud

“The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

— Karl Popper

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,…

— Anthony Daniels

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

— H. C. Bailey

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain

Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce tough men - or honorable women - without tough love.…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies…

— William James

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals…

— Thomas Huxley