Civilized Quote by Peter Ustinov

“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. ”

— Peter Ustinov

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract.…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

— Peter Ustinov

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

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

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

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

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

War is not civilized.

— Talib Kweli

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

Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home

— Joseph Anderson