A Quote by William Ralph Inge

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal. — © William Ralph Inge
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well.
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.
I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.
Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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