Civilised Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

— Moses Finley

“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of…

— Jules Verne

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

— John Keegan

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must…

— Karl Marx

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

— Christopher Hitchens

On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real, most interesting…

— Anton Chekhov

“To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.”

— Isaiah Berlin

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin.…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

— Samuel Smiles