Civilization Quotes SMS Collection

The progress of civilization corresponds with the

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Historically speaking, therefore, [T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.  ~Edgar Saltus, The Philosophy of DisenchantmentSH
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Flowers dont open to the clock but

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Flowers don’t open to the clock but to the sunshine spontaneous; for modern humans that manner of instinct is now extraneous. ~Terri Guillemets
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.  ~John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September
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Civilization is hideously fragile theres not much

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Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.  ~C.P. Snow
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Culture is roughly anything we do and

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Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t.  ~Lord Raglan
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There are many humorous things in the

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There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.  ~Mark
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It must be admitted that there is

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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization.  But, on the whole, the great ages have
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The dying process begins the minute we

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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.  ~Carol MatthauWL
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We are at the very beginning of

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race.  It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems.  But there are
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Where is the life we have lost

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have
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I stood on a tower in the

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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said,
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And the wind shall say 34here were

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And the wind shall say "Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls." ~T.S. EliotCDC
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When you cant do something truly useful

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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.  ~Lois
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What we call progress is the exchange

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.  ~Henry Havelock Ellis
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A living civilization creates a dying builds

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A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.  ~Martin H. FischerFFM
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People dont like the true and simple

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People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.  ~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861LCD
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Civilization is a movement and not condition

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.  ~Arnold ToynbeeCUL
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Animals have these advantages over man they

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Animals have these advantages over man:  they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to
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Civilization wrecks the planet from seafloor to

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Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.  ~Richard Bach
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We should distrust any enterprise that requires

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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Man despite his artistic pretensions sophistication

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Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and
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It is impossible to overlook the extent

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.  ~Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its DiscontentsTPV
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Progress is mans ability to complicate simplicity

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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.  ~Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva
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Human history becomes more and a race

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.  ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of HistorySH
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.  ~Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927quoteinvestigator.com/2012/05/04/twain-clothes
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Civilization is the distance man has placed

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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.  ~Brian AldissPCR
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Barbarism is needed every four or five

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life.  Otherwise it would die of civilization.  ~Edmond and
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We never really grow up we only

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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.  ~Bryan White
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