Quote by George Bernard Shaw

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate…

— George Bernard Shaw

“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

“The Europeans fight to exterminate us and call it civilizing us.”

— Claude McKay

“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.”

— Rick Roderick

“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”

— Daniel Quinn

“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.”

— David P. Goldman

“A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.”

— Anonymous

“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”

— Abhijit Naskar

“A society is defined not only by what it creates but also by what it refuses to destroy. ”

— Anonymous

“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to…

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt