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We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably. — Robyn Carr

If left together for too long, the two of them might actually take over the civilized world, through sheer application of snide remarks. — Gail Carriger

A very civilized thing, glass - almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass. — John Derbyshire

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world! — Arthur Schopenhauer

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days? — Cleveland Amory

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

But this is what it means to be civilized - doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all. — N.K. Jemisin

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. — John Ashcroft

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. — John R. Dallas Jr.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. — Thomas Sowell

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. — Oscar Wilde

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. — Anne Frank

We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other. — Saleem Durrani

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. — Rabindranath Tagore

Eye contact is what keeps us civilized. — Caroline Kepnes

Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the 'civilized' as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence. — Vinod Pande

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. — Denis Diderot

It's terrible to be civilized, because when you come to the end of the world you have nothing to support the terror of loneliness. — Henry Miller

Without privacy, civilized life could not exist. — James Clavell

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized. — Arthur Cravan

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. — Brian Herbert

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. — Alfred Marshall

It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it. — Seneca.

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

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. — John Ross

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life. — Mahatma Gandhi

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized. — Donald Glover

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. — Herman Melville

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. — Herbert V. Prochnow

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. — George Orwell

There was nothing civilized about sex with Eric. — Charlaine Harris

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life. — Lyman Abbott

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear. — Jed Rubenfeld

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself. — Jeanette Winterson

It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business. — Clark Ashton Smith

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized. — Epicurus

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals. — Gretel Ehrlich

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society. — Greg Boyle

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life. — Sherwood Anderson

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. — Derek Landy

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn't care who knows it. — John Gunther

Civilized life exacts its toll. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind. — Jerome Charyn

For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized — Rod Serling

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. — Dorothy Lamour

Poetry is priceless ... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated. — Russell Means

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. — Ayn Rand

It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be. — Sunday Adelaja

respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, — Diana Gabaldon

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement. — Vladimir Putin

He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer. — Larissa Ione

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. — Robert Reich

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. — Cesar Chavez

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational. — Sara Donati

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development. — Henry David Thoreau

each civilized person in the world should admit that he has two home countries: the one he was born in, and Syria . — Andrea Parrot

We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked. — Jeffrey Rasley

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. — Thomas Fuller

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. — Maureen O'Hara

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid. — Elie Wiesel

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up. — Amy Koppelman

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter

I was learning that in these extremely civilized circles, conflict is dealt with in a very ornate and hypocritical manner. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world. — J.G. Ballard

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. — Earl Warren

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us! — Abraham Maslow

As for Thea, sometimes she looked more barbarous than they did in spite of the civilized lipstick and conventional shape of the jodhpurs she wore. — Saul Bellow

If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace. — Ann Medlock

If I had to point to one invention in my lifetime that separated howling barbarism from civilized existence, it would be coffee. — Edward W. Robertson

Reading civilized the inner life. — Mason Cooley

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life. — Stanley Morison

Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress. — Jim Rohn

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. — Konrad Lorenz

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler

Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living. — Alexis Lichine

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. — Paulette Jiles

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. — Henry David Thoreau