116 Quotes About Civilized

Countless organisms are either cut or killed every four or so weeks, just to make us look civilized, sane, and mature through the state of our yard.

To know whether one is civilized, one must ask three questions. Is one accountable? Is one reasonable? Is one indivisible?

Regardless of how people divide people by color, social code, and category, the equality of one human being to the next (civilized or otherwise) is a tethered-rope of human emotions; most are born with them taut, some learn to twist them, and still others fight daily to keep theirs from unravelling.

Suits don't make people civilized, if they did, US Capitol would be the most civilized place on earth.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

To slaughter people, either in mind or in action, in the name of tribe is valor of the stone age, to love a stranger as our own family is valor of a civilized society.

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.

When we loosen the knots of our identity in celebration of humanity, we not only become stronger as a people, but also our own identity expands beyond our wildest imagination.

The civilized human stands firm on their conviction and says, I don't obey no etiquette, I don't obey no norm - whatever is civilized is born of me, whatever is human is born of me.