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Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

Civilization begins with distillation

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

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.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

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

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.