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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

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.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

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

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

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.

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.