Believe Quote by Sigmund Freud

From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we…

— Russell Peters

The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of…

— Jacque Fresco

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

“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

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to…

— John Stuart Mill

Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his…

— Kenny Smith

“Thousands of years ago tribes of human beings suffered great privations in the struggle to survive. In this struggle it was important not only…

— Andrei Sakharov

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as…

— Henry George

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by…

— Charles Lindbergh

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of…

— Jack Donovan

“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the…

— Will Durant