Civilized Countries Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and…
— Edith Wharton
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one…
— John C. Calhoun
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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings.…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that…
— Annie Oakley
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The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
— Alfred Marshall
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It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to…
— Leland Stanford
Who Wrote These Civilized Countries Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Civilized Countries Quotes as follows: