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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?
There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.
All that I would like to be is human, having a share
in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted
community where the mind is given its due
but the body is not distrusted
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that is untouched by man.
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
