We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.
Kathleen Blanco

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
Mary Cassatt

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
Robert Mondavi

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
Charles Sturt