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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

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck

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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