civilization Quotes

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like the very devil. What's at issue is how we describe the way the civilising works.