There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. — Denis Diderot 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 vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. — Tom McClintock Copy Share Image
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 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
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“There is simply no proof that warfare in small-scale societies was a rarer or less serious undertaking than among civilized societies. In… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
