Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools… — Thomas Munro Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
“Imperial and colonial attitudes still define the terms 'civilized world,' 'international community' and 'civil society.' Balkan people were never too impressed by… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more:… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were,… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
I will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals… — Plato Copy Share Image
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized…The only men I know… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
