Definition of Civilized

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Definition of Civilized
	Civilized of Civilize Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Related Definitions: And, Civil, Civilize, Cultivated, From, In, Instructed, Learning, Life, Of, Reclaimed, Refined, Savage

Civilized Quotations

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud

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

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

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilized Translations

civilized in German is gesittet, zivilisierte
civilized in Spanish is modoso, civilizado
civilized in Swedish is civiliserad

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