Contributions Quote by T.F. Hodge

“Technological advances happen so quickly, and integrate themselves so seamlessly into the fabric of our existence, that we hardly note their arrival anymore, let…

— Ron Currie Jr

“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a critical mass…

— Anonymous

“As we distance ourselves further from the natural world, we are increasingly surrounded by and dependent on our own inventions. We become enslaved by…

— David Suzuki

“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, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization”

— Stjepan Mestrovic

“The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

— Mark Twain

“There’s no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the futility of all effort, given…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Sherwood Anderson

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

— John Banville

“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

“Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.”

— Adam Burch