For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw 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
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 Copy Share Image
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that.… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
