Civilized Quotes

602 Civilized quotes by 445 unique authors

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and… — Ida B. Wells
I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to… — Eugene V. Debs
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal… — Jacques Maritain
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages. — Bernard Malamud
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped,… — Larry Niven
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. — Brian Herbert
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized… — George Gilder
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would… — Sigmund Freud
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put… — Mario Pei
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the… — George Henry Borrow
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to… — Unknown Author
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the… — Gwynne Dyer
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by… — Unknown Author
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek… — Tom Standage
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people… — Jerry Pinto
. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain… — Nathaniel Altman
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. — James F. Cooper

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