116 Quotes About Civilized

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

Civilized people don't feel.

People are savages. Their civilized behaviour is only a conditioned response.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

When Norman O. Brown said that Western society since Newton, no matter how scientific or secular it claims to be, is still as “religious” as any other, this is what he meant: “civilized” society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.

When will women become civilized enough to stop mistreating men? When will they cease from training their lovers to become providers, merely because they have the power to do so?As long as they continue as they are, men have no alternative to polygamy.

Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

Holistic hysteria and healthy wholeness are two different things. The former belongs in the stone-age, the latter in a civilized society.