Civilized Quotes

602 Civilized quotes by 445 unique authors

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in… — Isak Dinesen
Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized. — Mervyn Peake
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. — Derek Landy
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. — Judith Martin
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I… — H.G. Wells
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. — Aung San Suu Kyi
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But… — Mother Jones
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease,… — Ambrose Bierce
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is… — Washington Irving
Laughter... the most civilized music in the world. — Peter Ustinov
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods. — Dmitry Medvedev
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete… — Malcolm X
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband… — Alfred Nobel
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent,… — William Wilberforce
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society. — Greg Boyle
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our… — Kit Harington
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. — John Wesley Powell
The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place. — Anita Borg

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