Civilized Quotes

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

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

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.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

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.

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

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.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

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.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding