Civilized Quote by Ayn Rand

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

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

— Benjamin Rush

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

— Margaret Fuller

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

— Tennessee Williams

Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of…

— Saddam Hussein

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign races, whether…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

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