Civilized Quotes - Page 11

• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm ... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.

  Erwin Griswold

  Struggle, Men, Rocks

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• Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Country, Men

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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.

  Freya Stark

  Civilization, Decay, Matter

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• Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, People

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.364, Best Books on

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• But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.

  Hans Zinsser

  War, Civilization, Shadow

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• A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Nations

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• It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Mean

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Savages, Elegance

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.272

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• The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Average, Civilization

  Mark Twain Laughing 1904, #370 (p. 98)

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• Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

  Maria Montessori

  Two, Intellectual, Essentials

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• Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Passion, Mind, Savages

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.57, 谷月社

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• Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hunting, Outlets, Impulse

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.452, Routledge

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• Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

  Rupert Friend

  Rights, Civil Rights, Enjoyed

  "The 2015 GLAAD Media Awards: 5 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. May 9, 2015.

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• Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knights, Doctors, Soldier

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• Sherry, the civilized drink.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wine, Drink, Sherry

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• The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

  Elihu Root

  War, Lying, Men

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Justice, Civilized Nations

  Oration on day of Justice Story's funeral, Boston, Mass., 12 Sept. 1845

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• In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Washington Irving (1866). “The Works of Washington Irving ...: Oliver Goldsmith; The sketch book”

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• We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

  Judith Martin

  Positive, Society, Belief

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• Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.

  Mary Cassatt

  Thinking, People, World

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• Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, Generations, Too Late

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, College, Issues

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Theist, Humans

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.137, Transaction Publishers

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