The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain 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
“Regardless of how people divide people by color, social code, and category, the equality of one human being to the next (civilized… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
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
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism… — Albion Woodbury Small Copy Share Image
Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized! — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized. — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. — George Orwell 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
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