“Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.” — Toby Forward Copy Share Image
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson Copy Share Image
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick 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
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism… — Albion Woodbury Small Copy Share Image
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison 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
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens 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
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
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he… — Jean Itard Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
![“Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.” quote by Alfred Nobel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b8/alfred-nobel-17134_army_perhaps-my-dynamite-plants-will-put-an-e_1266313.jpg)
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![“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace…” quote by William Safire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da4/william-safire-5116_age_i-was-standing-next-to-a-famed-geo-polit_2646806.jpg)
![“[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A…” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb2/james-madison-373_civilized_t-he-most-common-and-durable-source-of-f_1932696.jpg)
