Quotes About Civilization

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

Now that I have definitely begun to live I find myself more and more convinced that civilization with its trappings and artificialities is not so good as nature.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic