Civilization Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Buffoonism, leads the great leaders of our lands.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.”

— Euripides

“...only those who have the will and the power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in this, as in all…

— Lysander Spooner

“I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the country whose…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.”

— Adam Hochschild

“Civilisation is only savagery silver-gilt.”

— H. Rider Haggard

“The South was a special place, a chosen people, the best of all possible worlds.”

— Marie Jakober

“Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.   Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out…

— Jonathan Swift

“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming…

— Haynes Johnson

“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“...but now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Prior to the rebellion the great mass of the people were satisfied to remain near the scenes of their birth. In fact an immense…

— Ulysses S. Grant