Behaviour Quote by Tennessee Williams

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

— Jean Kerr

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

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

— Anonymous

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

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

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

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Ursula Parrott

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Margaret Fuller

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