Civilized Quote by Walter E. Williams

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In…

— Thomas Sowell

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people…

— Adam Smith

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

— Stephen Breyer

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since…

— George Orwell

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been…

— Carter G. Woodson

When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished.

— Anonymous

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

— Gregory Maguire

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

— Timothy Leary

If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this way, but…

— Ilkin Santak

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how…

— Harry Belafonte