Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being,… — Tom Clancy 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
But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau 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
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms… — Annie Oakley Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov 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
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Iraq is not only fighting to defend itself, but also to defend all countries of the world, especially as these foreign fighters… — Ibrahim al-Jaafari Copy Share Image
Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless,… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
“If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human… — Cesar Chavez 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
Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead… — Janet Guthrie Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the… — Tony Randall Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
![“How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.” quote by Gerald Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/474/gerald-heaney-75147_arabia_how-dangerous-it-is-rashly-to-adopt-the_2847089.jpg)
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