Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world. — James Madison 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
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson Copy Share Image
New Yorkers are extremely varied, of course, but we are generally sharing an urban and civilized experience. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
“...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and… — Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Copy Share Image
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw 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
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
“Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“Direct and easy communications—freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense—has become vital to the very survival of a civilized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
