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

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

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

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.

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.