Civilized World Quotes

42 quotes by 41 authors

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that… — James Cameron
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the… — J. William Fulbright
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass… — Dave Barry
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. — Thomas Jefferson
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Philip Khuri Hitti
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and… — James A. Baldwin
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world. — James Madison
Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and its a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part… — George W. Bush
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;â€”war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to… — Pope Pius XII
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to… — Margaret Thatcher
Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call… — Thomas Berry
Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a… — Donella Meadows
Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up… — Lauren Willig
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital,… — Patrick Geddes
There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized… — Neal Shusterman
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice… — Manmohan Singh

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