civilisation

IPA: sʌvˈɪɫʌzˈeɪʃʌn

Examples of "civilisation" in Sentences

Every now and then they improve their condition a little and what we call civilisation appears.
Much of what we call civilisation is structure that has developed over time to limit monopolies.
Can what they call civilisation be right, if people mayn't die in the room where they were born?
It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e. to become bourgeois themselves.
It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves.
With what we call civilisation hundreds of miles away, in a country where law and order are to be regarded more as names than facts, one has a great joy in mere living, intensified doubtless by long hours spent in the saddle, by occasional hard work and curtailed rest, and by the daily sight of the rising sun.
Now that process, however necessary, however beneficial, involves some of the chief evils of our present phase of what we call civilisation, partly because it has deteriorated the quality of all human products and partly because it has enslaved mankind, and in so doing deteriorated also his quality. 12 Now we cannot abolish machinery, because machinery lies in the very essence of life and we ourselves are machines.