Civilisation Quote by Brian Aldiss

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.…

— Steven Galloway

“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in…

— Victor Hugo

“Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?”

— Sylvia Engdahl

“We often exist in no man’s land; between the extremities of what we want to be and what we have become.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of…

— Jules Verne

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“The humankind is far from being human, and much further kind.”

— Anthony Liccione

“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty…

— Charles William Eliot

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or…

— Viktor Schauberger