Civilized Quotes

602 Civilized quotes by 445 unique authors

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by… — C.S. Friedman
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling. — Craig Ferguson
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against… — Cesar Chavez
Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."… — William Goldman
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. — George Orwell
I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back on your finger,… — Lisa Kleypas
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess
How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says… — Sara Gruen
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds… — Emily Bronte
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? — Orson Scott Card
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been… — John Muir
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions… — Orson Scott Card
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible… — David Baldacci
We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's… — Pat Barker
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what… — Charles Darwin
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies… — James A. Michener
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels… — Oscar Wilde
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks… — Booker T. Washington
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. — Robert A. Heinlein

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