Civilization Quote by Emily Blackwell

“In civilized society, we humans are responsible for nurturing and sustaining the force of inter-relational harmony in our lives.”

— Gudjon Bergmann

The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought.

— Erving Goffman

“Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to…

— Fiona Paul

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

— Camille Paglia

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most…

— Kate Millett

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining…

— Thomas Paine

“The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over the woman,…

— Frederick Engels

“  "Friendship is no plant of hasty growth,    Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil,    The gradual culture of kind intercourse    Must bring it to perfection.”

— Isabella Mary Beeton

“we cannot imagine existing in our culture without the haven of an erotic partnership because our capacity to belong together in more chaste ways…

— Preston Sprinkle

Humans need intimacy. We've destroyed it in our country.

— Drew Pinsky

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be…

— Margaret Mead

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

— Henry Miller