Civilized Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

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.

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.