Time Quote by L. Frank Baum

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

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Jean Kerr

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

— Gregory Maguire

“The conventional wisdom says that societies seem more civilized than they actually are.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

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

— Ursula Parrott

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

— Herb Kawainui Kane

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

— Orson Scott Card