Books Quote by Abhijit Naskar Download Open image ““Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.”” — Abhijit Naskar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Brainy-quotes Civilization Civilized Culture Human society Psychology Sapiens
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.” — Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Copy Share Image
“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a thin veil over our savage selves, easily lifted by some for personal glorification.” — Lilo Abernathy Copy Share Image
“Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.” — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization” — Stjepan Mestrovic Copy Share Image
“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and meaningless paperwork.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That's how we'll make the move, to reform from rude.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each other's way.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Pilgrim of the heart, oneness in our vein - love is the revolution, Human is the name.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that, the idea of religion has been filled by the human society with all sorts of garbage, and thus been made complicated beyond common human comprehension, in reality, there is nothing simpler than the idea of religion. It is this simple. The religion of a computer is to compute - the religion of a scorpion is to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share
“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages would've been fun. I’ve got Mein Kampf on my shelf, next to bible, quran and vedanta. You cannot fathom the wholeness of life, if you let expansion be dictated by law. Expansion can't be contained by law, concocted… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image