Civilization Quotes

Civilization refers to an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development. It commonly describes human society, particularly civil society, the act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized, and the state or quality of being civilized, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to the act of rendering a criminal process civil and collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Civilization as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language.

Featured Authors on Civilization

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803-1882)

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Will Rogers

(1879-1935)

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Alfred North Whitehead

(1861-1947)