Civilised Man Quotes

5 quotes by 5 authors

• It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley
• On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his… — C.S. Lewis
• The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do… — Karl Marx

Who Wrote These Civilised Man Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 5 Civilised Man Quotes as follows:

• 1 Civilised Man Quote by Moses Finley
• 1 Civilised Man Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville
• 1 Civilised Man Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Civilised Man Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Civilised Man Quote by Karl Marx