Civilized Quotes

602 Civilized quotes by 445 unique authors

To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name… — Louis Pullig De Gouy
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots,… — Charles Sturt
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in… — Erwin Griswold
Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. — E L Konigsburg
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of… — Aldous Huxley
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up. — Richard Harding Davis
No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice… — Manmohan Singh
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement. — Vladimir Putin
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural… — Northrop Frye
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory,… — Clive James
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process… — Charles Darwin
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our… — Aleksander Kwasniewski
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the… — Henry David Thoreau
Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and… — Henry David Thoreau
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge… — Henry David Thoreau
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. — Robert Reich
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that… — Annie Oakley
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable… — William Matthews
The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful… — H. L. Mencken
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the… — Mark Twain

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