Civilize Quotes

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.