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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
Category: Civilization Author: Sigmund Freud
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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.
Category: Civilization Author: Mark Twain
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Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions.
Category: Civilization Author: Christina Gerogiannis
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Category: Civilization Author: John Muir
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Category: Civilization Author: B F Skinner
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The progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
Category: Civilization Author: Edgar Saltus
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Category: Civilization Author: Daniel Webster
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Category: Civilization Author: H G Wells
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They civilize what's pretty
By puttin' up a city
Where nothin' that's
Pretty can grow....
They civilize left
They civilize right
Till nothing is left
Till nothing is right
Category: Civilization Author: Alan Jay Lerner
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Category: Civilization Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Category: Civilization Author: Sigmund Freud
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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 been unstable ages.
Category: Civilization Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Civilization is what makes you sick.
Category: Civilization Author: Paul Gauguin
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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
Category: Civilization Author: Carol Matthau
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Category: Civilization Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
Category: Civilization Author: Richard Bach
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Where there are humans
you'll find flies,
and Buddhas.
Category: Civilization Author: Issa
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Category: Civilization Author: Arnold Toynbee
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
Category: Civilization Author: James Ramsey Ullman
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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Category: Civilization Author: Bennett Cerf
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