Civilized Man Quotes

43 quotes by 34 authors

Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable… — H. L. Mencken
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit… — Bergen Evans
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been… — Franz Boas
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden… — King Hussein I
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. — Helen Rowland
In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad — Pamela Geller
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
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
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities… — H. L. Mencken
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive — Konrad Lorenz
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his… — Gore Vidal
There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature… — Juan Donoso Cortes
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized… — Henry David Thoreau
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. — Mark Twain
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name… — Louis Pullig De Gouy
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots,… — Charles Sturt

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