Civilized Quotes

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

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.

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.