With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we… — Robyn Carr 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
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us! — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain 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
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being,… — Tom Clancy 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
There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
