Accepted Quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

— Gregory David Roberts

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

— David Starr Jordan

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the…

— Vernor Vinge

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of…

— Louis Kronenberger

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man…

— Alfred L. Kroeber

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

— Helen Cam

No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been that way.…

— Walter Russell

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

— John Lothrop Motley

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

— Roger Zelazny