A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us. — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop… — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. We've seen it in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life. — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
