Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.
Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.