Civilization Quote by Oscar Wilde

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the…

— Oscar Wilde

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

— Andrew Forrest

“Man cannot relinquish himself or the place in the visible world that belongs to him; he cannot become the slave of things, the slave…

— John Paul II

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

— Alexander Meiklejohn

“It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all…

— Wilhelm Reich

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man…

— Andre Malraux

“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

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to…

— Samuel Hopkins

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg