Quote by Tom Robbins

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“For my community, our vocations start with survival. The world was not built for us, though it was built on the backs of our…

— Patrick B. Reyes

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

— Sherwood Anderson

“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

“Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no…

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.”

— Rick Roderick

“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they…

— Idries Shah

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in…

— Blake Crouch