Civilized Life Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows…
— Hans Zinsser
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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost…
— E. V. Lucas
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One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.
— George Orwell
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There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the…
— Rene Dubos
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By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.
— Unknown Author
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.
— Janet Guthrie
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I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the…
— William Allingham
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Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
— Raymond Loewy
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Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
— Stanley Morison
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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural…
— Northrop Frye
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The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away…
— Tom Clancy
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Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because…
— Shimon Peres
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
— Arthur Keith
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
— Earl Warren
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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
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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting…
— Jeremy Collier
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Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our…
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Civilized Life Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Civilized Life Quotes as follows: