Veneer Of Civilization Quotes

#1. Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.

Oliver Markus

#2. His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

Susan Griffin

#3. The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

Travis Luedke

#4. The veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

Karin Tansek

#5. What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

Kenny Smith

#6. We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. 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 happen.

Bill Moyers

#8. Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.

Cinda Williams Chima

#9. Well, we're all animals, really
just with a veneer of civilization.

Michelle Cooper

#10. He despised violence. He believed he was smarter than that, better than that. A civilized man. After seeing Martin Pink in the flesh again - he knew just how thin the veneer of civilization was.

Josh Lanyon

#11. Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.

Bruce Brander