These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels Copy Share Image
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of… — Constantine the Great Copy Share Image
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
