Top 1200 Civilised Society Quotes & Sayings

Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of civilised community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together.

The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.

Tapas is one of the world's most civilised drinking and eating traditions.

If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.

In no civilised country is the head of the government immune from corruption investigation.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.

To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more civilised than it is right now.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

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

All my adult life, I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are impossible in a civilised society. They mean less revenue for the state, which means sacked teachers, unemployed doctors, fewer nurses. I am amazed anyone still takes such arrant twaddle seriously.

The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge today of any civilisation. The type of man dominant today is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.

Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be the primary site of conflict between nature and culture. If one assumes that nature (or instinct) is repressed in a highly civilised society, then I think the conceptual dyad nature-culture is best preserved there, in the realm of sex.

All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

We believe that a civilised society can be measured by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable members and that being impatient about poverty is therefore simply the default position for modern progressive Conservatives.

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world