There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. — W. L. George Copy Share Image
The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place. — Anita Borg Copy Share Image
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. — Mike Schmidt Copy Share Image
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis. — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“one should give up the conditional life of this material world and the association of so-called civilized human beings who are simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source:… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized… — Dave Barry 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
[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as… — H. G. Wells 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
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image