Definition of Civilization

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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. Related Definitions: Act, Being, Civil, Civilized, Civilizing, Criminal, Culture, National, Of, Or, Process, Refinement, Rendering, State, The

Civilization Quotations

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

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

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

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby

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.
Ayn Rand

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

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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