Civilized Quotes

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

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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.

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

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

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.

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.

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.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

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

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

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by 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.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

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

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.

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

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