civilization
n. A societal structure wherein everything is either forbidden or required.
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n. A limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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n. The distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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n. The artful form of decadence.
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Cynical Quotations
Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
— Unknown
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
— Sigmund Freud
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
— Henry Allen
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