1.
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.
Red Cloud
 
2.
I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.
Russell Means
 
3.
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
Charles Fourier
 
5.
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.
Louis St. Laurent
 
6.
By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.
John Ross
 
9.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
Sonia Sotomayor
 
10.
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
Robert Mondavi
 
11.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
12.
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
Paul Theroux
 
13.
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
Suzanne Vega
 
14.
Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!
Jean-Baptiste Say
 
16.
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
W. L. George
 
17.
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
Emile M. Cioran
 
18.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill
 
19.
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.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
 
20.
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
Robert I. Sutton
 
21.
The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
Pierre Trudeau
 
22.
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.
George Orwell
 
23.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
Robert A. Heinlein
 
26.
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
Mahatma Gandhi
 
28.
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.
James Mattis
 
29.
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
Ana Castillo
 
32.
I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.
John Wayne
 
34.
Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.
James Hong
 
36.
I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.
Jean Kerr
 
37.
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
Julian Assange
 
39.
We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.
John Matthews
 
40.
The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
Gregory Maguire
 
41.
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
J. Maarten Troost
 
43.
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
Bergen Evans
 
44.
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
Rupert Friend