Civilized Men Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people… — Stephen A. Douglas
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in… — George Bernard Shaw
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights… — Louis D. Brandeis
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to… — Harold Laski
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and… — Walter Lippmann
Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful,… — Alexis Carrel
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process… — Charles Darwin
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… — Herman Melville
With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the… — Bertrand Russell
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a… — William Graham Sumner
The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men. — Pierre Trudeau
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. — Robert E. Howard
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you… — Michel Foucault
We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks. — Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

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