If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world,… — Nathaniel Altman 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
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason… — William Powell Copy Share Image
With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain 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
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
Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
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
The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We're fundamentally opposed to the expansion of nuclear-weapons arsenals. This is why we have proposed the formation of an unbiased organization and… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“If he had come across her six years ago, he would have simply ridden off with her and made her his. But… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
“We might live in a civilized world, but rules “We might live in a civilized world, but rules and laws didn’t apply… — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
“No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
China's many nationalities need only to be transformed into the Chinese nation and to make it a highly civilized nation; then the… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
It's true we have our disagreements on border issues, we have disagreements on trade and related issues, but you don't go invading… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by… — Ida B. Wells 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
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes… — Albert Hadley 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
…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree:… — Jeffrey Kluger 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
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
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
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
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
