Is it what you call civilisation that makes England flourish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference

Can what they call civilisation be right, if people mayn't die in the room where they were born?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howards End] Reference

Much of what we call civilisation is structure that has developed over time to limit monopolies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wegman report released « Climate Audit] Reference

This evaluation, in so far as it is constant, results in what we call civilisation, and is the only bond of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Durer] Reference

I was a dweller under roofs; the gull of that which we call civilisation; a superstitious votary of the plastic arts; a cit, and a prop of restaurants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

It was your language, and what you call your civilisation, broke us down first, and the little spirit that fought against either is fast dying out of us. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference

Both know only too well that 'civilisation' is a name that expresses something about how man is able to overcome 'self' and work together in some kind of harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Limits Of Equality] Reference

While what we call civilisation could never have arisen had it not been for science, science forms scarcely an appreciable element in our so-called civilised training.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference

This is an advance in civilisation in exactly what manner?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-19] Reference

What we call civilisation is real but it's also very fragile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Lawlessness reminds us all that civilisation is a fragile thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Limits Of Equality] Reference

Western civilisation is becoming universal, the race a homogeneous one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Mountain] Reference

The history of civilisation is a history of conquest and of liberation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Montessori Method] Reference

All that was spiritual in Greek civilisation was sick before the sack of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art] Reference

But the civilisation is German and gives to the whole country a German stamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Face to Face with Kaiserism] Reference

"It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilisation," said the elder musingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference

The march of civilisation is driving these fringes out of fashion on the frontier.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference

The history of civilisation is a history of wandering, sword in hand, in search of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Drift] Reference

Anything out of the ordinary groove of civilisation is a joy to that primitive young man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Bush Maid] Reference

The wealth of our civilisation is unprecedented as is the capacity to produce new wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does the Environment Matter to Canada?] Reference

Today our civilisation is firmly based on wheels driven by the internal combustion engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contribution of Creative Chemistry to the Humanities] Reference

And let me observe that the highest civilisation is now returning to the language of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

No other civilisation is believed to have created anything as complex for another 1,000 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved « Isegoria] Reference

No other civilisation is known to have created anything as complicated for another thousand years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists Crack Secrets Of 2,000-year-old Astronomical Computer « Isegoria] Reference

'What we call civilisation is merely man's way of trying to impose his values upon the natural world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

Being the child of two civilisations, the Egyptian civilisation is as important to him as the Islamic one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations] Reference

But it can't sustain itself; it's too rigid, elitist and top-heavy – and civilisation is a bit like a flickering flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for] Reference

With all its sloth, hypocrisy and injustice, the English-speaking civilisation is the only large obstacle in Hitler’s path.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion and the Unicorn] Reference

And civilisation is merely the expression of life — a variform utterance which includes love, and hunger, and joy, and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

It is a garden, and gardens are at most facsimiles of wilderness constructed within civilisation's controlled regime, within the Empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE] Reference

The contribution which an organised and living Europe can bring to civilisation is indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Day] Reference

I have said how much the word civilisation really means -- the humanisation of man in society; his making progress there towards his true and full humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilisation in the United States] Reference

If you want a taste of 'civilisation' -- that's it on the end of your fork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference

Now this mode of interment must be the mode of a single age in Greek civilisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

So I sold up and swore that I would have no more to do with what they are pleased to call civilisation on the East Coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and Allan] Reference

But the west just has to cope with a strong Iran, a country with thousands of years of civilisation, that is now the master of enrichment.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference