Civilized Quotes

602 Civilized quotes by 445 unique authors

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man… — Thomas Jefferson
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations -… — Carl Sagan
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if… — David Hume
I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way… — Natalie Merchant
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights… — Louis D. Brandeis
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name.… — John Ruskin
I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would… — Jean Chretien
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on… — Unknown Author
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life. — Josephine Baker
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this… — John Trudell
Glamour is just sex that got civilized. — Dorothy Lamour
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and… — Dan Simmons
Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of… — Alan Keyes
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs… — Emile Durkheim
As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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