Civilization Quote by Stanley Crouch

Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

— Sivananda

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

— Helen Cam

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

— James Frey

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace…

— Anonymous

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

— Mark Twain

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

— Wendell Berry

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

— Anonymous

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

— Ralph Peters

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

— Serj Tankian

The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Sometimes we hate others because we are angry with ourselves. so let us control our mood for we do not harm others.

— Innah Delos Angeles