Civilized Quotes

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

The truly civilized man has no enemies.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

I will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.