Civilized Quotes - Page 13

• Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.

  Clive Bell

  Baby, Eye, Sight

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• At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Passion, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Adults, Males, Pants

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Selfish, Ignorance

  Thomas Sowell (1987). “Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays”, William Morrow

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• In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.

  Rand Paul

  People, Abhorrent, Groups

  "Rand Paul on Civil Rights: Private Restaurants Wouldn’t Have To Serve Martin Luther King" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

  George Orwell

  War, Dirty, Fighting

  "Looking Back on the Spanish War". Book by George Orwell, § 1, 1943.

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• Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

  Robert Reich

  Bully, Hallmark, Civilized Society

  "Break the Koch Machine" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2014.

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• I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Missing, Links

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Army, Israel, Enemy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.

  Steven Rinella

  Art, Hate, Hunting

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• Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

  Stanley Morison

  Typography, Minors, Technicalities

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• It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another; and whether the form in which slavery exists in the South is not but one modification of this universal condition... Let those who are interested remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

  John C. Calhoun

  Country, Community, Slavery

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• If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

  Amy Koppelman

  Made, Mets, Discourse

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• There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Humorous, Food

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.22, Litres

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• I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

  Sting

  Party, Believe, Commitment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

  Albert Einstein

  Slavery, Made

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.442, Princeton University Press

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• We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I grew up in a Chicken Coop and I was not a Chicken at first, until I was faced with your World!

  Buckethead

  Sports, Animal, What If

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• I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Intelligent, Psychology, Sides

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• And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

  Peter Jennings

  Boys, Government, Might

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• Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

  James Hong

  Entrepreneurship

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• Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

  Tony Randall

  Country, Government, Should Have

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• In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

  Pamela Geller

  War, Islamic, Men

  FaceBook post by Pamela Geller from Dec 05, 2016

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• Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mean, Law, Justice

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• Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hazards, Savages, Purpose

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