Civilized Quotes
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.
Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun to lead the free world to protect our civilized way of life.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.
You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
