Civilized Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

— Jean Kerr

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

— Cyril Connolly

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

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

— Rupert Friend

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

— Rod Serling

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

— Gregory Maguire

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it…

— Jonathan Maberry

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

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

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