Civilized Quotes

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

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

Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

War is not civilized.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.