Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Clearly, in every civilized culture since recorded history, marriage is always between a man and a woman. And the fact that we're… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the… — Diane Arbus 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
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
ISIS is a threat to all civilized nations. America's intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I've got dark and light, trying to hold onto the civilized part and use it successfully. I'm sure that… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday.… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
