Culture Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Edward Abbey

“civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.”

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and modest industries…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”

— Georges Clemenceau

“Historical experience is written in iron and blood.”

— Mao Tse-tung

“why can we never talk about the blood. the blood of our ancestors. the blood of our history. the blood between our legs. – blood”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“How could the human heart hold within its chambers at the same moment such grand measures of nobility and baseness? He wrote in his…

— Nancy Horan

“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.”

— Albert Jay Nock