Civilization Quote by Lily King

“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

“Helen didn't yet understand that conjuring up the future was the duty of the living, what they owed to the dead.”

— Tatjana Soli

“The true nature of a human being is not compatible with the so-called civilized world.”

— Bryant McGill

“A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I felt crazy,…

— Cathy Lamb

“She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.”

— Anonymous

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

“Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Helen savored the peace and quiet that only came in the complete absence of stupid questions.”

— Christopher Farnsworth

“Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts.…

— Alan Heathcock