Best Civilized Man Quotes

43 Civilized Man quotes by 34 unique authors

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control… — Lafcadio Hearn
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. — Konrad Lorenz
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. — Ezra Pound
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. — Henry David Thoreau
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he… — Thomas Sowell
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by… — C.S. Friedman
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. — Philip K. Dick
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I… — H.G. Wells
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning. — Robert Mondavi
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are… — Henry Louis Mencken

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