Political literature · Philosophical literatureNo arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 7.1
Lecture · Psychological literatureWe believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.Sigmund FreudIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1917★ 6.3
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning, It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.Charles Baudelaire1867★ 5.2
EssayAll civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.Havelock Ellis1922★ 5.1
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