Men Quote by Thomas Malthus

“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

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

“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

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

— Epicurus

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

— Eric Sevareid

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

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early…

— John Lubbock

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

— Thomas Carlyle

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to…

— James G. Frazer

“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in human history.…

— Jared Diamond

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

— Norman Borlaug