Civilized Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett Download Open image “Civilized life exacts its toll.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized Life Tolls
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized. — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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