Culture Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

“Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.”

— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“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

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so…

— Anonymous

“The veneer of civilization is extremely thin.”

— Charles Cook M.D

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

— Sherwood Anderson

“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Civilization is a thin veil over our savage selves, easily lifted by some for personal glorification.”

— Lilo Abernathy

“Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the…

— Iain Pears

“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.”

— Péter Nádas

“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant