Civilized Quote by George Orwell

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.

— Steve Harvey

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

— St. Jerome

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

— Leonid Andreyev

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

— Henry David Thoreau

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

— Laurent Baheux

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

— Joseph Joubert

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have…

— Henry David Thoreau

God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli