Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
