Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no… — Felix Adler 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
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree:… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead… — Janet Guthrie Copy Share Image
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
“Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
