Civilized Quotes

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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

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

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.