Civilized Quote by Leonard Woolf Download Open image “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.” — Leonard Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized Effort Terrible
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians came and… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come.… — Leonard Woolf 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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