Famous quotes containing the words civilized and/or world:
“A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)