A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are… — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“«How do we justify calling ourselves civilised, after all? Is it the books we read? The delicacy of our tastes? Our place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions… — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations.… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means -… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying. — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
“There are other unimportant things about us and our world, which are doubtless the actions of civilised species everywhere. We mate for… — Terence Park Copy Share Image
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo.… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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