Quote by Oscar Wilde

“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The conventional wisdom says that societies seem more civilized than they actually are.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“And we'll punish the people who don't conform. Not bodily of course. This is a civilized country.”

— Lauren Oliver

“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be educated until you're de-europeanized, you cannot be…

— Abhijit Naskar

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

“Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.”

— Anonymous

“The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotomizing everybody in it, taking away their choices,…

— Iain M. Banks

“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.”

— László Krasznahorkai

“end up defending cultures that involve corruption, slavery and the submission of women and the weaker members of society. I”

— Fernando Ballano Gonzalo

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

— Herman Bavinck

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

— Bryant McGill