Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. — Mike Schmidt Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Yes, because it’s obviously better if you beat each other to death with rocks instead of stabbing each other like civilized human… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic.… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me.… — Earl Felton Copy Share Image
Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
