A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Thor Heyerdahl
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
Suzanne Vega
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Howard Zinn
And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Donald Berwick
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Woolf
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
Lafcadio Hearn
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George Orwell
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
John Charles Polanyi
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
Francis Wright
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Alfred North Whitehead
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Alfred Marshall
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
George William Norris
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