Civilization Quote by Sigmund Freud

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of…

— Sigmund Freud

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant

“But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few.”

— Jonathan Maberry

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.”

— Fernand Braudel

“In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt”

— Trotsky

“The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is populace.”

— Rafael Sabatini

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

“only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.”

— John Steinbeck

“No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there was nothing…

— Niall Ferguson

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams