Civilization Quote by Paul Gauguin

civilization is a transient sickness.

— Robinson Jeffers

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

— Anonymous

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

— Herbert Marcuse

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

— Aldous Huxley

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

— Michael Pollan

Civilization is vastly overrated.

— Patricia Briggs

“Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.”

— Edward Abbey

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

— William Ralph Inge

Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

— I. A. R. Wylie

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt