Civilization Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must…

— Karl Marx

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is…

— Henry Miller

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

— Robert E. Howard

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

— Benjamin Rush

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or…

— Arthur Koestler

I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals…

— Thomas Huxley

“Let us conclude that savage man, wandering about in the forests, without industry, without speech, without any fixed residence, an equal stranger to war…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“So the Fall was a moral crisis but it has affected every part of man's nature, moral, intellectual, psychological, spiritual and physical. His whole…

— A.W. Tozer

On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long.

— L Ron Hubbard