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

“The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.”

“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them”

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less immoral than the direct infliction of suffering. Thus, civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization.”

“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”

“It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.”