Logo
Quote by David Hare
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - Davi

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

Other quotes by David Hare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare

Category:
Poetry
Author
David Hare
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

Category:
Civilization

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

Category:
Civilization

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. – Voltaire

Category:
Adversity

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. – Proverb

Category:
War

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I cant say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies. – Richard Dreyfuss

Category:
teacher

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal. – Stephen Jay Gould

Category:
Society