Civilized Quotes

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.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

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

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

War is not civilized.

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

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

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

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

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.