The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up. — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome. — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting… — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“It is because we understand you, Toblakai, that we do not set the Hounds upon you. You bear your destiny like a… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives.… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image