Civilized Quotes

602 Civilized quotes by 445 unique authors

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The… — Thomas Carlyle
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… — Herman Melville
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. — Bob Sutton
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is… — Mark Twain
With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the… — Bertrand Russell
Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days? — Cleveland Amory
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die… — Ingrid Newkirk
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the… — Michael Broadbent
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind. — Samuel Johnson
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious… — Anton Chekhov
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller
Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency.… — Molly Ivins
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of… — Wendell Berry
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the… — Alan Bennett
...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable,… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental… — Christian Lous Lange
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific… — Nancy Pearcey
I like things that are civilized. — Martha Plimpton
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. — Sally Quinn
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and… — H. L. Mencken
The truly civilized man has no enemies. — Charles Fletcher Dole

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