Civilization Quote by Italo Calvino

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

— Johan Huizinga

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to…

— Elsie Clews Parsons

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

— Gregory David Roberts

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of…

— Godfrey

“On s’habitue aux défauts des autres quand on ne croit pas de son devoir de les corriger.”

— Françoise Sagan

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

— Richard Lewis

“People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful, adding,…our approach is not entirely empirical. —John Mitchell, principal research scientist at…

— Alan Carlin

“Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe…It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the…

— Edmund Morris

“Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

— Neal Stephenson

“By noon, in a gray February world, we had come down through snow flurries to land at Albany, and had taken off again. When…

— John D. MacDonald

“Time is but an extension of the Human desire for organization.”

— Richard L. Foland Jr

“the smartest man in the room doesn't visit many rooms.”

— Garrett McCoy