Categories Quote by Howie Winter

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

— Carol Lynn Pearson

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

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

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

— Anonymous

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples…

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

— Nayantara Sahgal

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

— Andy Rooney

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,…

— Anthony Daniels