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Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We see the results of the assaults against freedom all around us.
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Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
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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 (115)
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To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
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For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized
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First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.
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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.
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Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.
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Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.
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The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less immoral than the direct infliction of suffering. Thus, civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization.
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.
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Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.
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There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.
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Civilization ... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.
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But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.
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Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.
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I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.
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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.
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Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
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Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
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We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that arises is fixed, and I mean really fixed - not ignored, not hidden, and not passed off to a future generation.
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The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
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There are other, civilised ways of dealing with the matter," Dllenahkh insisted.
Darithiven looked at him with pity. "Then, by your definition, this cannot be civilisation.
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As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
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They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon professional strong men, and scarcely looked normal at all. And they talked interminably and loudly. From their bouncing mental health ordinary ill-balanced mortals shrank in alarm.
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Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.
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Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.
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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep ...
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
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Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
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Civilised my syphilised yarbles.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
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Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
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I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for your health and your business. We'll do this civilised, or not at all. What do you say?
"I say civilised," said Shenkt. "For pity's sake, let's kill like honest men.
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For a century or more, the "civilized" world regarded as a manifestation of its wealth metal dug from deep in the ground, refined at great labor, and transported great distances to be buried again in elaborate vaults deep under the ground,
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Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.
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There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
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Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?
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To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
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But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.
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Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening!
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It has been said that civilization is the process of freeing human beings from each other, and that is true. But it takes people to free each other, because people cannot be freed from each other except by each other. The irony of this cannot be overstated.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ...
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A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.
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Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
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People have become educated, but have not become human.
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Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.
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A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
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The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.
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If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.
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Civilized life exacts its toll.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
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The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.
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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
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We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.
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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.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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... perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilisation of one's own.
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For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.
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Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
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Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.
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I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.
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You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.
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It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.
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No longer does human life rise from the earth like a pyramid, broadly and considerately founded upon its own sources. Now it scatters itself out in a reckless horizontal sprawl, like a disorderly city whose suburbs and pavements destroy the fields.
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To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.