Civilized Quote by Agnes Repplier

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

— Cyril Connolly

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

— Jean Kerr

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

— Ursula Parrott

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

— Rupert Friend

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

— Tennessee Williams

“The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom…

— M.J. Croan

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

— John Stuart Mill

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also…

— Walter Cronkite

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of…

— Rachel Carson