Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
By the time Congress is even authorized to act after the President has launched nuclear weapons, there may no longer be a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop… — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down.… — Jonathan Gottschall 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
Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin 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
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
Stress is not a reaction. Rather it is the price we pay for the "civilized" life we live which by the way… — Yordan Yordanov Copy Share Image
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary. — Nawaz Sharif Copy Share Image
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
“Once Tim asked his father what civilized meant. “Taxes,” Big Ross said, and laughed—” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky Copy Share Image
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