Veneer Quote by Malcolm Watts

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 extremely thin.”

— Charles Cook M.D

“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

“against the kitchen counter. “Oh, Sister,” I said, “you have no idea.”

— Rebecca St. James

“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

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

— Edward Abbey

“Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the existence of…

— Liu Cixin

“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed…

— Liu Cixin

“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later. What would…

— Liu Cixin

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.…

— Anonymous

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

— Werner Herzog

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like…

— Albert Einstein

“Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of…

— Jules Verne

If we behave like the kitchen is for adults, they become more wary of it and reluctant to go in it because it feels…

— Nadiya Hussain