In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau 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
I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary. — Nawaz Sharif Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image