Civilized Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

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.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I like things that are civilized.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.