333 Quotations with Civilization.
- 21. Ignazio Silone: On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can ...
- 22. Brian Aldiss: Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguish ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authe ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood t ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people wi ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air wa ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the indiv ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enligh ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, th ...
- 35. Mark Twain: Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- 36. Cicero: What a time! What a civilization!
- 37. Cyril Connolly: The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- 38. Sigmund Freud: The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of ...
- 39. David Brower: When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to paus ...
- 40. Howard Zinn: Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritan ...
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