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(adjective) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion. Example: "She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people."

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"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."
— Thomas Sowell
"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."
— Thomas Sowell
"We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity"
— John Muir
"The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so."
— Thomas Sowell
"What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less."
— Thomas Sowell
"The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized."
— John Muir
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
— Benjamin Franklin

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