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We are not all able to do all things. — Virgil

One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. — John Dewey

Politics is the art of making civilization work. — Louis L'Amour

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs. — Leo Errera

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. — Joyce Carol Oates

Does the thoughtful man suppose that ... the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. — Hans Hofmann

I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need! — Wesley Willis

The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. — Toni Morrison

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power — Robert Greene

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time. — Leon Golub

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy. — Pope Francis

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Cancun ... catch me in the room, eatin' grouper. — Ghostface Killah

Civilization is paralysis. — Paul Gauguin

...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization. — Samuel Lipman

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. — Toni Morrison

Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive. — Hannah Moskowitz

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools. — Bob Dylan

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course. — Aristotle.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made. — Tim Duncan

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. — Helen Cam

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. — John Berger

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. — Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny