Civilised Quotes
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A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians
We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world
If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised.
I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
You have to protect your food, otherwise someone else takes it! There is no divinity in here! But there is divinity there: In a civilised order where no being has to defend for its food!
When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!
The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.
Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...
No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!