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
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
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
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
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
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 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
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we… — Bo Lozoff 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in… — Aldous Huxley 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
Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as… — Fukuzawa Yukichi 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
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
Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
“The creatures who act as though they belong to the world follow the peace-keeping law, and because they follow that law, they… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
![“There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external, i.e., political control] falls and likewise, when the religious barometer…” quote by Juan Donoso Cortes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c9/juan-donoso-cortes-84258_barometer_there-are-only-two-possible-forms-of-con_2773724.jpg)
![“[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science… As long as we…” quote by Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/050/richard-rorty-13909_achieve_walt-whitman-and-humanist-educator-john_2355050.jpg)
![“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace…” quote by William Safire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da4/william-safire-5116_age_i-was-standing-next-to-a-famed-geo-polit_2646806.jpg)
