The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans, — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I long for the good old days when people were civilized and acted accordingly - Kalyani Rajalingham — Kalyani Rajalingham Copy Share Image
In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized… — Charlaine Harris 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
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations. — James Mattis Copy Share Image
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence,… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us! — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.” — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
