Culture Quote by Stjepan Mestrovic

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

“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

“What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth…

— Niall Ferguson

“, 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

“the knowledge underlying civilization is so widespread today”

— Peter Thiel

“Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.”

— Richard M. Weaver

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

— Sherwood Anderson

“Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.”

— T.F. Hodge

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

— John Lukacs

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

“Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.”

— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez