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“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.”
― Nikola Tesla

“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfareâ€�, of the ‘rules of civilized warfareâ€�, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progressâ€� What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.”
― James Connolly

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.”
― Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe: Part One, 1858

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
― George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

“The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.”
― Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

“Civilized people don't feel.”
― Mervyn Peake, Complete Nonsense

“As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)”
― Gail Carriger, Heartless

“Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times.”
― Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism

“I do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?"

"Oh, yes;" replied Dorothy.

"Then that accounts for it. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left; nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Now there is this noteworthy difference between savage and civilized; that while a sick, civilized man may be six months convalescing, generally speaking, a sick savage is almost half-well again in a day. So in good time my Queequeg gained strength; and at length after sitting on the windlass for a few indolent days (but eating with a vigorous appetite) he suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out his arms and legs, gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and then springing into the head of his hoisted boat, and poising a harpoon, pronounced himself fit for a fight.”
― Herman Melville

“While restraint is apparent to anyone in daily contact with animals, Western thought hardly recognizes the ability. Traditionally, animals are depicted as slaves of their emotions. It all goes back to the dichotomy of animals as "wild" and humans as "civilized". Being wild implies being undisciplined, crazy even, without holding back. Being civilized, in contrast, refers to exercising the well-mannered restraint that humans are capable of under favorable circumstances. This dichotomy lurks behind almost every debate about what makes us human, so much so that when humans behave badly, we call them "animals". (p. 222)”
― Frans de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

“High rise buildings and space exploration don't make a lifeform civilized, high rise character and heart exploration do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“To be progressive and call yourself civilized, it is necessary to do a little exercise and bathe daily”
― Luisa Capetillo

“It seems that before the Europeans came to the Americas, our highly cultured Indian woman usually held an honored position in the "primitive" society in which she lived. She was mistress of the home and took full part in tribal elections. The position of the woman was not only free, but honorable. She was a strong laborer, a good mechanic, a good craftsman, a trapper, a doctor, a preacher and, if need be, a leader. It seems that among the so-called SAVAGE people of this continent, women held a degree of political influence never equaled in any CIVILIZED nation.”
― Enriqueta Vasquez, Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights)

“One of the greatest challenges for civilized men is asking for what they want.”
― Traver Boehm, Man Uncivilized

“In attempting to become more civilized, we enter the Middle Ages.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Get to know the animal within,
World will know the human outside.
Resist no more the darkness within,
World will wake up to a dawn divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“It's been two hundred thousand years,
since we developed the face of human.
Question is, how many more millennia,
till we develop the heart of human!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“In becoming inclusive we become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Without wholeness intellect turns dry and does harm,
Without wholeness faith becomes a choir of divide.
Without wholeness science runs cold and destroys all,
Without wholeness mind remains animal uncivilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“To question whether you have freedom,
is the beginning of freedom.
To question why you have freedom,
is the beginning of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“There is not one but two awareness,
One primeval another civilized.
Animal awareness prevents death,
Human awareness preserves life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Life is what happens to the human,
Human is what happens to life.
Nature is what happens to the animal,
Human is the animal rising civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Memorize some creeds, and you're religious.
Memorize some facts, and you're intellectual.
The former is religion of the old world jungle,
The latter is religion of the new world jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what we carve out for ourselves, may not be sufficient for future generations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Toleration is civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Nations became civilized in three fundamental ways, they said: science, education and beauty contests.”
― Elif Åžafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“What is civilized is tolerant, what is tolerant is civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood