Being real Quote by Shane Koyczan

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

— Thom Mayne

Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.

— Donald Trump

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

— Saul Bellow

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

— Jean-Baptiste Say

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes…

— John Boyd Orr

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

— Jose Mujica

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human…

— William Irwin Thompson

We think we can play a small part in the evolution of culture.

— Miguel McKelvey

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…

— Flora Lewis

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

— Mark Twain

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that…

— Jacque Fresco