There is something funny about the human condition, and…

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when…

— John Prine

“It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning…

— Anonymous

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

— John Prine

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

— Ludivine Sagnier

There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny…

— Romesh Ranganathan

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage…

— Henry David Thoreau

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

— Theodore Roosevelt

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

War is not civilized.

— Talib Kweli

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

— Walter Gropius

Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home

— Joseph Anderson

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become…

— Francis Quarles

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon