Civilization Quote by Carol Lynn Pearson

Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same…

— Howie Winter

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.

— Octavia Butler

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special…

— Sylvia Earle

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human…

— William Irwin Thompson

“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a critical mass…

— Anonymous

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

— Nayantara Sahgal

“Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us'…

— Robert Sapolsky

“We have become human “doings” rather than human “beings.”

— Mike Breen

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important…

— Jacques Ellul