Civilized Quotes

602 Civilized quotes by 445 unique authors

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system… — Woodrow Wilson
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that… — Don DeLillo
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where… — Madeleine L'Engle
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... — John Muir
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of… — Thomas Jefferson
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought… — Ernest Hemingway
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. — Rachel Carson
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. — Henry David Thoreau
Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. — Thomas Jefferson
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were… — Charlaine Harris
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he… — Thomas Sowell
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun… — Andrea Camilleri
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and… — Ayn Rand
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a… — Thomas Nagel
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone… — Margaret George
I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who… — Cory Doctorow
Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when… — Jim Butcher
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized — Rod Serling
You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he… — Rick Riordan
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you… — Saul Bellow

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