“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau 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
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
