The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone… — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat… — George Orwell 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
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilised country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if… — Yuri Orlov Copy Share Image
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized… — George Will Copy Share Image
The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
