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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.

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

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

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.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.