Civilization Quote by Brian Aldiss Download Open image “Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.” — Brian Aldiss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Distance Men
“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.” — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him. — H. C. Bailey Copy Share Image
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
