Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future. — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“ Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times.” — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving 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
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized. — Arthur Cravan Copy Share Image
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult… — William Damon Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults. — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better… — Lafcadio Hearn 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
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society… — Jon Evans 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 think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
