Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
Tony Randall

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Gustave Courbet

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
Tom McClintock

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Edward Dahlberg

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

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
Tom McClintock

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

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

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith

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

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Sally Quinn

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey Fisher

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Earl Warren

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
Jeremy Collier

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
Patrick Geddes