Civilization Quote by Stanisław Lem

“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest had to…

— Stanislaw Lem

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

— Sherwood Anderson

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“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... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

“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

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so…

— Anonymous

“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is…

— Peter Jelen

“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

“Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi