Civilized Quotes

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

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

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I like things that are civilized.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.