If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential…

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after…

— Anonymous

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

— Thomas Carlyle

“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study…

— Anthony Burgess

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

— Peter James

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers,…

— Adam Gopnik

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

— James Anthony Froude

In power politics, it's usually not enough to be liked. A nation has to be considered essential.

— Richard Cohen

While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts…

— Alexander Hamilton

Three objects were considered essential across all participants, cultures and genders: keys, money and mobile phone.

— Jan Chipchase

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

— Ann Leckie

On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

— Anthony Burgess

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi