Civilized Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

War is not civilized.

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.

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

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.