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

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children. — Will Durant

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

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man. — Daniel Quinn

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times. — Isaiah Berlin

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Accepting a man's hospitality is a token of good will, a declaration that you and your host stand on terms of a civilized relationship. — Ayn Rand

The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos. — Abdul Mueed

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. — Theophile Gautier

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty. — John Muir

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life. — Rachel Carson

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

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. — Dale Carnegie

Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. — Daniel Webster

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain

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

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. — George Meredith

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws. — Otto Von Bismarck

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning. — Robert Mondavi

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we. — Konrad Lorenz

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time. — H.L. Mencken

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. — Philip K. Dick

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws. — Earl Felton

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad — Pamela Geller

The truly civilized man has no enemies. — Charles Fletcher Dole

A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come ... sometimes; but (2) pay the bills ... at all times. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own. — Louis Pullig De Gouy

Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The more civilized Man becomes, the more violent he becomes. — Stanley S. Thornton

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. — W. L. George

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

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. — Mark Twain