Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations…

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

— Joseph Anderson

As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in…

— James Madison

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is…

— James A. Garfield

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

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

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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

War is not civilized.

— Talib Kweli

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

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

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

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