Definition of Civilization
Civilization
The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
Rendering a criminal process civil.
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Civilization Quotations
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization Translations
civilization in Afrikaans is beskawing
civilization in Dutch is beschaving, beschaven
civilization in French is civilisation
civilization in German is Zivilisation, Gesittung
civilization in Swedish is civilisation, kultur
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