Civilisation Quote by Steven Galloway

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“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

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

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

— Sherwood Anderson

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or…

— Viktor Schauberger

“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”

— Brian Aldiss

“What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?”

— Nicholas Mosley

“The parts of humanity that use to be civil are dead and gone. The only thing left is a technological, emotionless, colorless, dead version…

— James Wheeler

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“The veneer of civilization is extremely thin.”

— Charles Cook M.D

“It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.”

— John Wyndham