The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

- George P. Shultz

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

- Konrad Lorenz

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

- Konrad Lorenz

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

- John Wesley Powell

It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

- Jamie Bamber

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

- John Stuart Mill

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

- James Cameron

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

- Ingrid Newkirk

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

- Howard Zinn

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

- Georgina Chapman

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

- Alfred North Whitehead

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

- George Osborne

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

- George Orwell

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

- Flora Lewis

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

- Dean Inge

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

- Denis Diderot

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

- Cyril Connolly

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

- Charles Darwin

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

- Amelia Earhart

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

- Ambrose Bierce