Orson Welles Quotes

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

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

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

All mankind love a lover.

No human creature can give orders to love.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

Civilization develops man, and if he is, according to his whole character and destiny, made for development, civilization is his truly natural state …

It is common to think of our own time as standing on the apex of human history.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.