A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
Civilized men can disagree, savages will kill you when they disagree.
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
I am a New Yorker, and 700 A.M. Is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
I think we should decide this in a civilized manner... It's a subculture, and if it exists, it's wrong to ban it.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
