The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He… — Jeremy Collier 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
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
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis. — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back… — Lisa Kleypas 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
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of… — Herman Melville 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
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan 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
...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight'… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
I think Jorge Borges said that when Argentineans die they turn into angels and go and live in Uruguay. But for the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements… — Kenny Smith 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's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume… — Jacquetta Hawkes Copy Share Image
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults. — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image