Quote by Mark Russell

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Sherwood Anderson

“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

“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

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

— Mark Twain

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to…

— Jean Giono

“A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We”

— Larry Niven

“But if we don’t figure out the way the world works and is, and if we don’t live in harmony with it, we will…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“And you don’t like my saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of…

— Ann Leckie

“It's not about keeping up the population, it's about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we…

— Isaac Marion

“Another way to say it is that everybody is dying and going to die of something. And if you're not spending your life on…

— Daniel Nayeri