1. Action de civiliser un pays, un peuple, de perfectionner les conditions matérielles et culturelles dans lesquelles vit un peuple : La civilisation de la Gaule par les Romains.
2. État de développement économique, social, politique, culturel auquel sont parvenues certaines sociétés et qui est considéré comme un idéal à atteindre par les autres.
3. Ensemble des caractères propres à la vie intellectuelle, artistique, morale, sociale et matérielle d'un pays ou d'une société : La civilisation des Incas.
Expressions avec civilisation
Langue de civilisation,
langue servant de support à une littérature écrite et jouant un rôle important dans la diffusion d'un certain type de culture.
Maladie de civilisation,
affection engendrée ou favorisée par l'environnement, les modes de vie, les technologies propres à une civilisation.
Citations avec civilisation
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte 1808-Paris 1889) Les crimes de l'extrême civilisation sont certainement plus atroces que ceux de l'extrême barbarie. Les Diaboliques
André Breton (Tinchebray, Orne, 1896-Paris 1966) Il semble que de toutes parts la civilisation bourgeoise se trouve plus inexorablement condamnée du fait de son manque absolu de justification poétique. Position politique de l'art d'aujourd'hui, Pauvert
Roger Caillois (Reims 1913-Paris 1978) Académie française, 1971 Il n'est pas pour la civilisation de danger plus redoutable que le fossé que l'on voit parfois s'élargir entre le discours et la coutume. Circonstancielles, Gallimard
Benjamin Disraeli comte de Beaconsfield (Londres 1804-Londres 1881) Des moyens accrus et des loisirs accrus sont les deux agents de civilisation de l'homme. Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Speech at Manchester, 3 avril 1872
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (Paris 1893-Paris 1945) L'extrême civilisation engendre l'extrême barbarie. Les Chiens de paille, Gallimard
Georges Duhamel (Paris 1884-Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, 1966) Académie française, 1935 Chaque civilisation a les ordures qu'elle mérite. Querelles de famille, Mercure de France
Henry Havelock Ellis (Croydon, Surrey, 1859-Hintlesham, Suffolk, 1939) Plus une civilisation progresse rapidement, plus tôt elle meurt pour laisser place à une autre. The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to arise in its place. The Dance of Life, VII
Jean Henri Casimir Fabre (Saint-Léon, Aveyron, 1823-Sérignan-du-Comtat 1915) L'homme succombera tué par l'excès de ce qu'il appelle la civilisation. Souvenirs entomologiques, Delagrave
Anatole François Thibault, dit AnatoleFrance (Paris 1844-La Béchellerie, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, 1924) Académie française, 1896 Ce que les hommes appellent civilisation, c'est l'état actuel des mœurs et ce qu'ils appellent barbarie, ce sont les états antérieurs. Sur la pierre blanche, Calmann-Lévy
Sigmund Freud (Freiberg, aujourd'hui Příbor, Moravie, 1856-Londres 1939) Il existe infiniment plus d'hommes qui acceptent la civilisation en hypocrites que d'hommes vraiment et réellement civilisés. Considérations actuelles sur la guerre et la mort Es gibt also ungleich mehr Kulturheuchler als wirklich kulturelle Menschen. Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod
Joseph Arthur, comte de Gobineau (Ville-d'Avray 1816-Turin 1882) La chute des civilisations est le plus frappant et en même temps le plus obscur de tous les phénomènes de l'histoire. Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines
Remy de Gourmont (Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, 1858-Paris 1915) La civilisation est un produit naturel, tout comme l'état sauvage ; ce sont des fleurs différentes poussées dans la même forêt. Promenades littéraires, Mercure de France
Remy de Gourmont (Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, 1858-Paris 1915) La civilisation, c'est la culture de tout ce que le christianisme appelle vice, frivolité, plaisirs, jeux, affaires et choses temporelles, biens de ce monde, etc. Promenades philosophiques, Mercure de France
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Salem, Massachusetts, 1804-Plymouth, New Hampshire, 1864) La fleur noire de la société civilisée : une prison. The black flower of civilized society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter, I
Victor Hugo (Besançon 1802-Paris 1885) La civilisation n'est autre chose que le mode de végétation propre à l'humanité. Tas de pierres, Éditions Milieu du monde
Thomas Babington Macaulay, baron Macaulay (Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, 1800-Campden Hill, Londres, 1859) À mesure qu'avance la civilisation, la poésie, presque nécessairement, décline. As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Literary Essays, Milton
André Malraux (Paris 1901-Créteil 1976) Toute civilisation est hantée, visiblement ou invisiblement, par ce qu'elle pense de la mort. Antimémoires, Gallimard
André Malraux (Paris 1901-Créteil 1976) La vraie barbarie, c'est Dachau ; la vraie civilisation, c'est d'abord la part de l'homme que les camps ont voulu détruire. Antimémoires, Gallimard
André Malraux (Paris 1901-Créteil 1976) Je vois dans l'Europe une barbarie attentivement ordonnée, où l'idée de la civilisation et celle de l'ordre sont chaque jour confondues. La Tentation de l'Occident, Grasset
Prosper Mérimée (Paris 1803-Cannes 1870) Académie française, 1844 Ce qui est crime dans un état de civilisation perfectionné n'est que trait d'audace dans un état de civilisation moins avancé, et peut-être est-ce une action louable dans un temps de barbarie. Chronique du temps de Charles IX, Préface
Charles Langbridge Morgan (Bromley, Kent, 1894-Londres 1958) La France est une idée nécessaire à la civilisation. Le Voyage France is an idea necessary to civilization. The Voyage
Napoléon Ier (Ajaccio 1769-Sainte-Hélène 1821) empereur des Français Un roi n'est pas dans la nature ; il n'est que dans la civilisation. Il n'en est point de nu ; il n'en saurait être que d'habillé. Cité par Las Cases dans le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
Pierre Reverdy (Narbonne 1889-Solesmes 1960) Les civilisations sont les fards de l'humanité. Le Livre de mon bord, Mercure de France
Antoine Rivaroli, dit le Comte deRivarol (Bagnols-sur-Cèze 1753-Berlin 1801) Les peuples les plus civilisés sont aussi voisins de la barbarie que le fer le plus poli l'est de la rouille. Fragments et pensées politiques
Jules Romains pseudonyme littéraire devenu ensuite le nom légal de Louis Farigoule (Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, Haute-Loire, 1885-Paris 1972) Académie française, 1946 Si notre époque, si notre civilisation courent à une catastrophe, c'est encore moins par aveuglement que par paresse et par manque de mérite. Les Hommes de bonne volonté, Montée des périls , Flammarion
Bertrand, 3e comte Russell (Trelleck, pays de Galles, 1872-Penrhyndeudraeth, pays de Galles, 1970) Être capable d'occuper intelligemment ses loisirs, tel est l'ultime produit de la civilisation. La Conquête du bonheur, I To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. The Conquest of Happiness, I
George Santayana (Madrid 1863-Rome 1952) La civilisation approche peut-être d'un de ces longs hivers qu'elle connaît de temps en temps. La période chrétienne, pittoresque, passionnée et malheureuse, peut prendre fin. Une catastrophe de ce genre ne devrait pas nous désespérer. Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair. Characters and Opinions in the United States
Paul Valéry (Sète 1871-Paris 1945) Nous autres, civilisations, nous savons maintenant que nous sommes mortelles. Variété, la Crise de l'esprit , Gallimard
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