"Civilization is the distance man has placed between……" — Brian Aldiss
"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta."
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24 Quotes by Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss has 24 quotes on this site.
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
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Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
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A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers…
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Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able…
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The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution,…
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and…
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats…
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That…
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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
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The day of the android has dawned.
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Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into…
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More Civilization Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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