Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

The Egyptians had no Stone age, and were born civilized.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...

A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

As women go, so goes civilization.

This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.