Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Ambrose Bierce
I look much more civilized than I actually am.
Georgina Chapman
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.
Red Cloud
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Denis Diderot
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart
Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.
Robert Fulghum
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
W. L. George
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George Gilder
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.