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A very civilized thing, glass - almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.
— John Derbyshire
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
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.
— Gil A. Waters
If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
— Abhijit Naskar
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
— Freya Stark
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
— Mark Rowlands
The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.
— Samuel R. Delany
Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals.
— Robert Kirkman
What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!
— Marjane Satrapi
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
— C.E.M. Joad
Human is human," said Issib. "But civilized - that's the gift of the Oversoul. Civilization without self-destruction.
— Orson Scott Card
The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.
— Thomas Lynch
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
— Paulette Jiles
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
— Tom Robbins
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
— Madeleine Albright
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.
— Louis St. Laurent
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
— Alfred North Whitehead
All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
— Craig Ferguson
Social intercourse a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power ... — Emily Blackwell
We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked.
— Jeffrey Rasley
