I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will… — Clive James Copy Share Image
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms… — Annie Oakley Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source:… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. — Henry George Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.” — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up. — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at… — Clive Bell 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
The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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