The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It seems almost uncivilized to tell someone writing a novel, 'No, you have to call this a memoir.'

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

I gotta answer the hard questions in a hard-type manner. Anything else would be uncivilized.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.