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Civilization
is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
-- Thomas B. Aldrich
1836-1907, American Writer,
Editor
Each new
generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
-- Hervey Allen
1889-1949, American Author
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.
-- Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern
Philosopher, Writer
We are born
princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
-- Eric Berne
1910-1970, Canadian
Psychiatrist, Writer
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The three
great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing,
and the Protestant religion.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
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.
-- Kenneth, Lord Clark
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-Prés:
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.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
The civilized
are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and
for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
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