Civilized
of Civilize
Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
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Civilized Quotations
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud
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
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
Civilized Translations
civilized in German is gesittet, zivilisierte
civilized in Spanish is modoso, civilizado
civilized in Swedish is civiliserad
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