Balance Quote by Ezra Pound

“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this…

— Ernest Becker

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…

— Flora Lewis

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

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Jean Kerr

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

— Jane Addams

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our…

— Agnes Repplier

It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion…

— Herbert Marcuse

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

— Rod Serling

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation,…

— Felix Adler