Civilized Quotes - Page 22

• It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Compassion, Men, Justice

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.

  Alexis Lichine

  Wine, Glasses, Fine

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• 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.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Insanity, Dull

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We're fundamentally opposed to the expansion of nuclear-weapons arsenals. This is why we have proposed the formation of an unbiased organization and the disarmament of the nuclear powers. We don't need any weapons. We're a civilized, cultured people, and our history shows that we have never attacked another country.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Organization, People

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Liberty, Arbitrary

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.69, Knopf

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• The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

  J. G. Ballard

  Past, World, Residents

  J. G. Ballard (2014). “Running Wild”, p.62, Macmillan

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• The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

  William Blake

  Simple, Men, Age

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.542, Univ of California Press

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• The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

  George Inness

  Art, Mistake, Men

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• As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Satisfied, Grows

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hunting, Australia, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.5, Routledge

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• The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

  Plato

  Children, Mind, Essentials

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• If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Struggle, Men, Goal

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• It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

  Mark Twain

  Knives, Civilization, Hands

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3701, Delphi Classics

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• There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Men, Law, Two

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• Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Poor, Producers, Consumers

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.96, Coventry House Publishing

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• Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Ignorant, Term, Stills

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.

  Gwynne Dyer

  War, Years, Innovation

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• This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.

  Carroll Quigley

  Simple, Able, Groups

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• If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

  John Adams

  Heaven, Politics, Stealing

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.230, Regnery Publishing

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• Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists, anarcho-primitivists, and so forth (The "GA Movement") have fallen under such heavy influence from the left that their rebellion against civilization has to great extent been neutralized. Instead of rebelling against the values of civilization, they have adopted many civilized values themselves and have constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies that embodies these civilized values.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Real, Technology, Civilization

  "The Road to Revolution" by Theodore Kaczynski, 2008.

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• I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

  Saeb Erekat

  Mean, Law, Goal

  "Palestinian Negotiator On Netanyahu And A Palestinian State". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 20, 2015.

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• I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

  Robert E. Howard

  Country, Race, Interest

  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, August 9, 1932.

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• Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.

  Jalal Talabani

  Country, Iraq, Promise

  "Keep U.S., British forces in Iraq, says Talabani". The Toronto Star, September 23, 2006.

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