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Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

– Julian JaynesRate it:

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

– Brian AldissRate it:

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

– Oliver Wendell HolmesRate it:

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

– Ayn RandRate it:

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.

– Ayn RandRate it:

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

– Timothy LearyRate it:

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

– Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human CycleRate it:

Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

– Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills WildeRate it:

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

– Vance HavnerRate it:

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

– Edith HamiltonRate it:

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

– Arnold ToynbeeRate it:

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

– Arnold ToynbeeRate it:

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