The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it.… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume Copy Share Image
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