“It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.” — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised. — Dana Gould 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
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay 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
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid. — Peter James Copy Share Image
The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to… — Matt Hancock 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
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
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
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this… — Robin Boyd 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
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's… — Kevin Dutton 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
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — C. S. Lewis 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
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
