Civilization Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

— Ralph Chaplin

“..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.”

— Bill Clinton

The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

— Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf

“Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.”

— Edward Abbey

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and…

— Umberto Eco

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

— Pope Francis

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more…

— Augustus William Hare

“The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized the actual…

— Lin Zhao

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

— Andrew Jackson

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own…

— Margaret Mead

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin