Civilization Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

— Anonymous

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war…

— Rutger Bregman

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind

— Tennessee Williams

“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

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

— Andy Rooney

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

“the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”

— Karin Tansek

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

“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

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires…

— Lisa Joy