Animal Quote by Victor Hugo

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But…

— Victor Hugo

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the…

— Aristotle

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an…

— Niall Ferguson

This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or…

— Viktor Schauberger

. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot…

— Nathaniel Altman

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of…

— Rachel Carson

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.”

— John Wyndham

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a…

— Rachel Carson

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

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man…

— Pope Leo XIII