Civilized Quotes - Page 31

• One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

  Anita Brookner

  Children, Growing Up, Passion

  Anita Brookner (2016). “Brief Lives”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

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• Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

  Louise Erdrich

  Death, Passages, Rite

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• Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

  Augustus William Hare

  Country, Civilization, Causes

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• in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

  Ilka Chase

  Loneliness, Two, Effort

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• So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Independent, Peculiar

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.251, VM eBooks

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• But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

  Shane Koyczan

  Ideas, Being Real, Process

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• How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

  Laurence Sterne

  Country, War, Air

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• I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ballup against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Sleep, House

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.99, Glendower Media

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• Reading civilized the inner life.

  Mason Cooley

  Reading, Inner Life

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• And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

  James Joyce

  Perfect, Water, Humanity

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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.

  Robert Frost

  Night, Civilization, Cities

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Cities, Degradation

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• All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal policies promote mobs because liberals crawl on the mobs, the destruction wrought by the mobs to attain power. Tere's only one way to react to a mob to save civilized society, and that is to smash the mob. It is not to mollycoddle the mob.

  Ann Coulter

  World, Way, Destruction

  "Ann Coulter: Liberal Policies Led to U.K. Riots". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2011.

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• I look much more civilized than I actually am.

  Georgina Chapman

  Looks

  "Georgina Chapman Interview: Red-Carpet Royalty" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Way, Method, Norm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Alcohol, Superstitions

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• As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

  H. L. Mencken

  College, Thinking, Ymca

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• I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

  William Safire

  Religious, Peace, War

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• casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.

  Jane Rule

  Kings, Men, Gambling

  Jane Rule (2013). “Desert of the Heart: A Novel”, p.223, Open Road Media

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Book, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1

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• The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

  George F. Kennan

  People, Generations, Records

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilised country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Country, Men, Practice

  "Freedom or death". Emmeline Pankhurst's Speech in Hartford, Connecticut, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 1913.

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• The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

  George P. Shultz

  World, Common, Stakes

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• They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Gun, Japan

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