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Civilization

«Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.»
Author: Brian W. Aldiss | About: Civilization | Keywords: excreta
«Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.»
«Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest»
Author: Emile Zola (Activist, Critic, Novelist) | About: Civilization | Keywords: priest
«Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.»
«Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort»
«Civilization is what makes you sick.»
Author: Paul Gauguin | About: Civilization
«Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity»
«Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.»
«Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite»
«Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that»

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