Civilized Quotes
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.
How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.
I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.
The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous, and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.
A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.