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“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of…

— Jules Verne

“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”

— Thomas Hardy

“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.”

— David Marusek

“It is quite complicated, being civilised.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“My life more civil is and free Than any civil polity Ye princes, keep your realms And circumscribed power Not wide as are my…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.”

— Jules Renard

“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I asked them the other evening to name the three most important human beings in history. They protested that the question made no sense…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And when it comes to questioning people, I have a lot more finesse than High King Let’s Beat The Shit Out Of Them Until…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“A peasant with gold is still a peasant”

— Tom Doig

“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.”

— Samuel Johnson