Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but >>
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which ga >>
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act wi >>
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volc >>
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. >>
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems coo >>
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.