civilization, n.Definitions

Civilization is a concept that is antitheical to the concept of violence.

Civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretenses.

A Civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Civilization is a failure, and what is required now is a re-thinking of what we can do together in love and peace.

Civilization is a process in the service of eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know... the work of eros is precisely this.