Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of…

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become…

— Francis Quarles

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home

— Joseph Anderson

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

— Walter Gropius

War is not civilized.

— Talib Kweli

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage…

— Henry David Thoreau

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized…

— Sean O'Casey

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that…

— Jacque Fresco

We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that…

— Tom Hiddleston

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with…

— Gore Vidal

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

— Carl von Clausewitz