Civilized Quotes
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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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War is not civilized.
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Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.
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... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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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?
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How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.
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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
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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.
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the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.
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Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.
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None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.
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The Fifth 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.
