Accounts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Wars and crises turn almost all men into brutes.

— Mariana Fulger

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness…

— Julianna Baggott

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

— Amelia Barr

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

— Ayn Rand

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

— Ayn Rand

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

— Bertrand Russell

“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain…

— Sigmund Freud

If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the…

— Joost Meerloo

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

— Ludwig von Mises

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from…

— Bertrand Russell

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits