Civilized Nations Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other…
— Alfred Nobel
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An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds…
— H. L. Mencken
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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
— James Madison
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As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying…
— James Madison
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I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would…
— Jean Chretien
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Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized…
— William Wilberforce
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The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he…
— Edward Everett
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
— Samuel Johnson
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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
— Walter Gropius
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During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set…
— George W. Norris
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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of…
— Elie Wiesel
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
— Daniel Webster
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On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband…
— Alfred Nobel
Who Wrote These Civilized Nations Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Civilized Nations Quotes as follows: