Body Quote by Katherine Mansfield

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most…

— Rudolf Rocker

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

— John Buchan

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe…

— Jimmy Sangster

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

— Pearl S. Buck

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

— Max Frisch

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find…

— Vernon Lee

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a…

— G. Stanley Hall

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

— Jacques Ellul