„Modern civilization is highly computerrorized.“

— Andrzej Majewski
„Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.“
— Anthony Burgess
„In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.“
— George Orwell