Quote by Charles Cook M.D

“the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”

— Karin Tansek

“The veneer of civilization is like that on the kitchen counter - very thin.”

— Malcolm Watts

“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

“Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.”

— Bruce Brander

“Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke

“A civilization for ever within easy reach of a blade had little to boast about.”

— Steven Erikson

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law.…

— Maile Meloy

“...my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Or maybe the ugliness is in us. That's just the way we are. Underneath the pretense of civilization.”

— Bethany Griffin