Civilized Quotes

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

The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the moral forces it is capable of generating.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

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

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

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

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

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

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

In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.

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

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

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

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

It is a disgrace for a civilized society to appeal for help to the dead.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man’s struggle to make himself civilized.

The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

It was a sane, humane, and politic treaty which put an end to that horrible butchery of slaying the conquered, of giving no quarter to prisoners of war – Spanish barbarism that the patriots were forced to adopt themselves in reprisal, that had pushed back civilization, made the soil of Columbia an abode of cannibals and soaked it with innocent blood until all humanity shuddered, It was an advantage to us, fatal to the Spaniards. Their forces could only diminish; mine, augment and organize.

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

You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.