Civilized Quote by Robert E. Howard

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Margaret Fuller

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

— Cyril Connolly

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

— George Orwell

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

— Tennessee Williams

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

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower

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