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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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.
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.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all 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.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.