Logo
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. – John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

Category:
Civilization

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

Category:
Civilization

People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

Category:
Civilization

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. – Jacques Prévert

Category:
Hugs

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. – Karl Marx

Category:
Technology

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. Peoples attitudes would change. It would be a better place. – Tommy Chong

Category:
Change

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Time