Lisa Joy Quotes

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

The spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men and to extinguish those inflammable humors which have so often kindled into wars.

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Peace is a human right and those who deny you peace are those who are violating an essential right.

The abolition of war is like the abolition of slavery, a matter of education and civilization.

Killing is evil ... All countries are different and progress should be achieved by peaceful means wherever possible.

The belief that war is inevitable makes of war a self-fulfilling prophecy.

From the very beginning of history, all human civilization was essentially designed to interfere with … brute struggle. We intend to modify the violence of the fight, and to prevent the weak being trampled under foot.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race

Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law..

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.

I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

Are we savages or what?

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.