Civilised Quote by John Keegan Download Open image “A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.” — John Keegan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilised Combat Men Satisfying War
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation. Its circumstances… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest literature in… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they? — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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