Civilized Quotes

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Sherry, the civilized drink.

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.