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...any attempt to define the characteristics of modern society is akin to defining the color of a chameleon. — Yuval Noah Harari

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place. — Iain Pears

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization. — George Bernard Shaw

Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization. — Darryl Cunningham

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society. — Gil A. Waters

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. — Harriet Martineau

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. — Ayn Rand

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. — Kobo Abe

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed. — Frederick Lenz

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. — Edward Abbey

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos. — Benjamin Hart

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi

society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. — Naomi Klein

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home. — K. Hari Kumar

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men. — Robert M. Pirsig

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization. — Richard Manning

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions. — Henry David Thoreau

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. — John Boyd Orr

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself. — Joseph Wood Krutch

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. — Chen Guangcheng

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. — Timothy Leary

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

When humor goes, there goes civilization. — Erma Bombeck

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society — William Graham Sumner

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi

Society destroys your individuality, your soul. — Swami Dhyan Giten

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people. — Swami Dhyan Giten

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. — Isaac Asimov

Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a living is pretty poor, — Robert A. Caro

I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime. — Isabella L. Bird

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel

The maturity of every society is reflected in the attitude toward women, upon whom the continuation of mankind depends. Civilization — Deborah Kaple

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. — John Ralston Saul

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it? — Gustave Le Bon

It's also said that a society's prison system is how best to measure their civilization. If that's so, we're fucked. — Sara Lunsford