Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom.

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change.

What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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

The United States will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

I have no objection to civilization. I object to the fact that civilization should step on what permits us to breathe in the first place.

It is impossible for a nation to civilize itself; civilization must come from abroad.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops-no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Puerto Rican writer, Cauce sin rio Under every social skin there lurks some barbarism.