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"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Aldrich, Thomas B. · Civilization · 1 fans >>
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"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages."

Allen, Hervey · Civilization · 2 fans >>
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"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."

Baudrillard, Jean · Civilization · 0 fans >>
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"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."

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"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."

Carlyle, Thomas · Civilization · 3 fans >>
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"People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater."

Clark, Kenneth, Lord · Civilization · 1 fans >>
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"Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past."

Connolly, Cyril · Civilization · 0 fans >>
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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."

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"The test of civilization is its estimate of women."

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"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."

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Speech Marks "Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past."

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