In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they… — Kit Harington 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
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . . — Emily Blackwell Copy Share Image
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image