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I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

— Elizabeth Hurley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

— Flora Lewis

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

— Tom Stoppard

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

— Arthur Keith

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

— Jane Addams

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

— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

— Ayn Rand

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

— John Buchan

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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