Civilisation Quote by Emile Zola

“It is a truism among researchers into smell that all human subjects behave as if they themselves do not smell like humans, because all…

— Lyall Watson

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Human nature is disposed to do good.

— Mencius

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always…

— Alain de Botton

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

— Fernand Braudel

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

— Cary Grant

“It must be the duty of racial hygiene to be attentive to a more severe elimination of morally inferior human beings than is the…

— Konrad Lorenz

We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them

— Sandranil Biswas

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery,…

— Cyril Connolly

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others,…

— David Hume

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

— Anonymous

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

— Lucy Worsley