Logo
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage na

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. – Bryan White

Category:
Civilization

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. – Vance Havner

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Civilization

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin

Category:
funny

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. – Francesca Annis

Category:
dating

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. – Madeleine Vionnet

Category:
Clothing

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. – Zig Ziglar

Category:
Action