Civilized Quotes

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

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

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

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.