Brutality Quote by Christopher Dutton

“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast…

— Christopher Dutton

“The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence.”

— David Livingstone Smith

“There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be…

— Coretta Scott King

“Here mankind discarded civilization as if it were an article of clothing and left behind every decent feeling: love; loyalty; simply everything. Here it…

— Schoschana Rabinovici

“I can think of no people more fragmented... Craftsmen you see, but no humans, thinkers, but no humans, priests, but no humans, lords and…

— Friedrich Holderlin

“The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man.”

— James Thurber

“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in…

— Victor Hugo

“Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or…

— Aldous Huxley

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture.”

— Czesław Miłosz

“Every man must ceaselessly struggle upwards. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn?”

— Malcolm Lowry

“The rest of history for three and twenty centuries is threaded with the spreading out and development and interaction and the clearer and more…

— H.G. Wells