Civilized Quote by Robert E. Howard

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

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

— 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

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

— George Orwell

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

— Robert E. Howard

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies…

— David Cronenberg

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

— Pablo Picasso

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

— Stephen Batchelor

When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and…

— Irvine Welsh