Civilized Quotes - Page 19

• For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Mind, Age

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• 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.

  Franz Boas

  Men, Thinking, Race

  The Mind of Primitive Man preface (1938)

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• Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Wine, Apples

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

  Charlaine Harris

  College, Class, White

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.118, Penguin

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  I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Peace, Boys

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Gun, Men

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• I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Differences, Civilization, People

  Chester A. Arthur's second annual message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, December 4, 1882.

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• Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

  Ashley Montagu

  Mutilation, Justification, Ritual

  "Mutilated Humanity" by Ashley Montagu, 1991.

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• Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.

  Dorothy Lamour

  Girl, Sex, Achievement

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

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• There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external, i.e., political control] falls and likewise, when the religious barometer falls, the political barometer, that is political control and tyranny, rises. That is the law of humanity, a law of history. If civilized man falls into disbelief and immorality, the way is prepared for some gigantic and colossal tyrant, universal and immense.

  Juan Donoso Cortes

  Religious, Fall, Men

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• If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

  Julian Assange

  Produce, Civilized Society, Ifs

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• No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

  Booker T. Washington

  Food, Men, Thinking

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Country, Mistake, Sleep

  Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

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• 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.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Writing, Order

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• Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

  John Ashcroft

  Christian, People, Scary

  Remarks addressed to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, February 19, 2002.

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• And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.

  Saul Bellow

  People, Trying, Terrorism

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Men, Games

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• The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Age, Violence

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

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• Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. You might even want to punch them in the nose. Sometimes just making that connection is its own experience, its own reward.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Loneliness, Connections

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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• I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.

  Cory Doctorow

  Running, Rocks, Play

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• Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

  Daniel Quinn

  Believe, Men, People

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• Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

  Will Durant

  Art, Emotional, Expression

  Will Durant (2011). “The Age of Faith: The Story of Civilization”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Race, Land, People

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• In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

  J. Paul Getty

  Art, Opinion, Individual

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• Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

  C.S. Friedman

  Men, Doe, Needs

  C.S. Friedman (2001). “In Conquest Born”, p.44, Penguin

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