The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
“The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.” — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us. — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.” — Federico Mangahas Copy Share Image
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and… — Plato 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
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always… — Edna St. Vincent Millay 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
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need. — Bob Dylan 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
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value. — Robert McKee 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
“...Don't you ever get the feeling that for all that people try to be so civilized and sophisticated, we're really just animals… — Marie Zhuikov 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
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
