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A civilization or civilisation is a society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in cities. Compared with less complex cultures, members of a civilization are organized into a diverse division of labour and an intricate social hierarchy. The term civilization is often used as a synonym for culture in both popular and academic circles. Every human being participates in a culture, defined as "the arts, customs,... full article at wikipedia

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The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.	Henry Miller
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.	Havelock Ellis
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.	Mark Twain
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.	Edith Hamilton
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.	Wallace Stevens
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.	Henry James
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.	Elbert Hubbard
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.	Oscar Wilde
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