Civilization Quote by George Orwell

“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no…

— George Orwell

“the holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become apresent love.”

— A Course in Miracles

“Incidentally, it helps to have enemies. While love is a beautiful emotion, far more empires have been built, books written, wrongs righted, fights won,…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

“Out of all human emotions, none is more primitive, and has a longer lasting effect on the body, than hatred.”

— Kei Ohishi

“We are all ruled by emotions. One of the most powerful is a state called enmity, which I spoke of earlier. It is irrational,…

— Jeff Wheeler

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

“To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most…

— Honoré de Balzac

“Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the Manifestation of…

— Nynke Visser

“How do we understand prejudice, hatred, and violence in the context of modern societies, like our own, among people much like ourselves, among men…

— Helmut Walser Smith

“Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.”

— Victor Hugo

“As Adam Smith put it centuries ago: “the emotion which we feel for the misery of others… is by no means confined to the…

— Adam M. Grant