“To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat. — John Keegan 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
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
