Civilization Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Worldly possessions didn't matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the…

— Rose Wynters

We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that…

— Lauren DeStefano

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications…

— Albert Camus

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him.…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave, and he…

— Roger B. Taney

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

— Patrick Süskind

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the…

— Christopher McCandless

“He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than…

— Bram Stoker

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because…

— Willem de Kooning

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson