Civilization Quote by Rene Dubos

“Disease is not simply a manifestation of some physical process unique to the individual, but it reflects their particular lives, environment and culture.”

— Gabor Maté

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

— Quentin Crisp

“[Some diseases] are probably always present in population 'resrvoirs'... and in times of malnutrition or other adverse conditions [manifest]... as population controls.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

— James Anthony Froude

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to…

— Rene Dubos

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

— Hippocrates

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

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if…

— Edward Bach

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— George Bernard Shaw

civilization is a transient sickness.

— Robinson Jeffers