Civilized Quote by Tom McClintock

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

— Tom McClintock

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

— Denis Diderot

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law .…

— Joseph Story

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

— Gwynne Dyer

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed…

— Walter Lippmann

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

— Virginia Woolf

Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of…

— Clive Bell

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides…

— Robert De Niro

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the…

— Charles Darwin