Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.