War is not civilized.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

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

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values we believed than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.