Civilized Quotes

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

War is not civilized.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Glamour is just sex that got civilized.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

I like things that are civilized.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Reading civilized the inner life.

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

The truly civilized man has no enemies.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.