Civilized Quotes · Page 9

We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.

— Larry Harvey

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

— Sigmund Freud

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world…

— Mahmoud Abbas

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance…

— Ezra Pound

For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

— Dalai Lama

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples…

— Edward Dahlberg

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

— Bergen Evans

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he…

— Anonymous

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not…

— Muhammad Yunus

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better…

— Samuel Johnson

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be…

— Daphne Guinness

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is…

— Mark Twain

That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a…

— Robert Musil

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,…

— Washington Irving

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and…

— Mother Jones

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely…

— H. L. Mencken

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair…

— William Dean Howells

Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the…

— William H. Prescott

Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me!…

— Anonymous

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're…

— Jim Butcher

I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by…

— John C. Calhoun

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

— Timothy Leary

“...Don't you ever get the feeling that for all that people try to be so civilized and sophisticated, we're really just animals…

— Marie Zhuikov

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

— Emile M. Cioran

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of…

— Jeanette Winterson

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

— Clarence Day

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

— Konrad Lorenz

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

— Robert McKee

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be…

— Rachel Carson

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most…

— Edward Gibbon

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system…

— John Charles Polanyi

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat…

— George Orwell

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me.…

— Earl Felton

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

— Oscar Wilde