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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages.
Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.
