civilization quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1471363669
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
civilization quotes by BERTRAND RUSSELL-1471360315
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
civilization quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1471355381
Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
civilization quotes by CONFUCIUS-1471353195
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
civilization quotes by C.P. SNOW-1471349081
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
civilization quotes by OGDEN NASH-1471347641
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
civilization quotes by BRYAN WHITE-1471329872
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
civilization quotes by SYRUS-1471328118
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
civilization quotes by LORD RAGLAN-1471277667
Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.
civilization quotes by SIGMUND FREUD-1471276236
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
civil disobedience quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1471274466
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
civil disobedience quotes by ROBERT A. HEINLEIN-1471196930
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
civil disobedience quotes by EDMUND BURKE-1471195521
It is not what a lawyer tells me Imaydo; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
civil disobedience quotes by CLARENCE DARROW-1471194490
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
civil disobedience quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1471182668
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
civil disobedience quotes by LEMUEL K. WASHBURN-1471181027
It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.
civil disobedience quotes by JOHN J. MILLER-1471179746
Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.
civil disobedience quotes by MARK TWAIN-1471160603
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
civil disobedience quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1471158516
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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