Civilized Quote by George Orwell

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an…

— George Orwell

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

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter…

— James A. Baldwin

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

— Spider Robinson

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

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

I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally,…

— Karl Marlantes

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

— Max Boot

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

— Tennessee Williams

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

— Robert Burns

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

— Ralph Peters