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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. – Herbert Spencer
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities. – Anonymous
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song. – Will Durant
Civilization is a transient sickness. – Robinson Jeffers
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. – Max Nordau
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. – Julian Jaynes
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. – Timothy Leary
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven. – Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. – Arnold Toynbee
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. – Arnold Toynbee
Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit. – Coming to America
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. – Blaise Pascal
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. – Blaise Pascal
Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it. – Ann Landers
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you. – Geof Greenleaf
Class is material consumed. – John Trudell
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. – Kin Hubbard
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. – Samuel Johnson

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