Civilized Quotes

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.

Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

I like things that are civilized.

Reading civilized the inner life.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that is untouched by man.

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.

Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom.

In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.

Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be.

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