Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations. — James Mattis Copy Share Image
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should… — Nancy Pearcey 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
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
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. — W. L. George Copy Share Image
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. — Adrian G. Duplantier Copy Share Image
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
