Civilization Quote by Charles Cook M.D

What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not…

— Kenny Smith

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

— Malcolm Watts

“the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”

— Karin Tansek

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

— Dean Koontz

“His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He…

— Susan Griffin

People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller…

— S. I. Hayakawa

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately…

— Vaclav Smil

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and…

— Eve Ensler

Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of…

— Janice Galloway

But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse, so it's…

— Surya Das

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they…

— Brent Scowcroft

“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common”

— D.E. Stevenson