Civilized Quotes · Page 7

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

— Alfred North Whitehead

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

— Martha Gellhorn

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

— John Gunther

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

— Albert Einstein

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

— Tom McClintock

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

— Arthur Cravan

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

— Philip K. Dick

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

— Herman Melville

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the…

— Mark Twain

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only…

— Antoine Rivarol

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health…

— Alan Bennett

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have…

— Robert De Niro

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized…

— Flora Lewis

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the…

— Franz Liszt

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

— Denis Diderot

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the…

— Cleveland Amory

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the…

— Diane Arbus

I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every…

— J. E. Buckrose

We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going…

— Jacque Fresco

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

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will…

— C.S. Friedman

It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source:…

— Barack Obama

Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the…

— Robert Mondavi

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized…

— Dave Barry

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

“It is because we understand you, Toblakai, that we do not set the Hounds upon you. You bear your destiny like a…

— Steven Erikson

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives.…

— David J. Lieberman

At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their…

— Frank Pittman

You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting…

— Michael Broadbent

To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

— Thomas Fuller

“In a civilized country you can never tell.”

— John le Carré

“Reading is an activity of civilized beings.”

— Toba Beta

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

— H. L. Mencken

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

— Orson Scott Card

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

— Greg Boyle

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

— Epicurus

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

— Otto von Bismarck