For reasons I can't fully explain, except that it is, after all, a wonderful quotation, a quote from archaeologist Howard Winters that his student Anne Marie Cantwell passed along at the Midwest Archaeological Conference meetings in 1994 has been seen in a few interesting venues--including the Huffington Post.
Here's the quotation:
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it. Howard Winters
Cantwell described the quote as something he came up with in reply to a question from a student during class, rather than anything he published, but nonetheless, it had an impact on Cantwell, and me, and now an impact on others outside of archaeology.
- Business Innovation Factory: BIF Speak related links October 2008
- Autism Street: Consider this quote October 13, 2008
- Huffington Post: Backyard Democracy April 24, 2008
- Blog Hound: Democracy, conversations and theater, July 3, 2007
- PhilPaine.com: Second Meditation On Democracy, August 7, 2007
- Child of Illusion: Civilization, February 12, 2007
- Democratic Underground: What would you say to the next president?, November 6, 2006
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