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Civilian power establishes all institutions of the state that determine the people's living standards and the stability of society; on the contrary, wrong forces and invisible anarchy destroy that silently.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Civilisation displays and endorses the conception of love, harmony, justice, and equal rights for everyone regardless of the discrimination; conversely, one feels that the West indeed becomes civilised; however, one seems not to believe that the West behaves the same with others. Civilisation is still to achieve and apply as its real conception.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

– Mary Wortley MontaguRate it:

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

– Malcolm MuggeridgeRate it:

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

– Alfred North WhiteheadRate it:

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

– Alfred North WhiteheadRate it:

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

– Will DurantRate it:

Civilization culminates in the power-press. It is the grand total of the difference between a boastful United Statian and a beastly Hottentot, —between Yankee Doodle and Timbucktoodle

– Little RockRate it:

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

– Amos Bronson AlcottRate it:

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

– Will DurantRate it:

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

– Luther Standing BearRate it:

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

– Mark TwainRate it:

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

– Jane AddamsRate it:

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

– Arnold ToynbeeRate it:

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

– Sigmund FreudRate it:

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

– Herbert SpencerRate it:

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

– AnonymousRate it:

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

– Will DurantRate it:

Civilization is a transient sickness.

– Robinson JeffersRate it:

Civilization is an illusion, because history will always repeat itself in every generation.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

– Max NordauRate it:

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.

– Henry MillerRate it:

Civilization is not a planet or land and its resources. It is just your brain how works that, constructive or destructive.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

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

– Julian JaynesRate it:

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