“The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. — Mike Schmidt Copy Share Image
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future. — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world… — Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Copy Share Image
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“one should give up the conditional life of this material world and the association of so-called civilized human beings who are simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I thought you were from a civilized country," he said. "How have you come to look more like Carthya's whipping boy than… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized… — George Will Copy Share Image
“These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living. — Alexis Lichine Copy Share Image
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
