Civilized Quotes - Page 34

• We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

  Maurice Sendak

  Nice, Parent, Christmas Card

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to implement it as mercifully as possible. Are we to believe then that a holy God-our heavenly Father-is less just than the courts of men?

  Sidney Hatch

  Children, Father, Believe

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• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Beauty, Art, Peace

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.

  Peter Hitchens

  Baby, Thinking, People

  "A calamity for women... just as the doctor predicted" by Peter Hitchens, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 27, 2007.

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• I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Humanity, Usage

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• MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Animal, Nurse

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

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• I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Believe, Men, Order

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, People, Instinct

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.76, Routledge

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• All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

  Colin Powell

  Fighting, Political, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

  Marie Ponsot

  Feelings, Way, Priceless

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• I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.

  Jerry Pinto

  Book, Civilization, People

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• For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the cost in money, in lives, and in suffering was always significant. Only in the past century have large numbers of people begun to question the basic assumption of civilized societies that war is inevitable and often useful.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Money, War, Past

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• Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism.

  Colin Powell

  War, School, Russia

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

  B. Traven

  Organization, Important, Earth

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• I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Hours, New Yorkers

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• It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Responsibility, Justice, Unpredictable

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• Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

  Marisha Pessl

  Phones, World, Phone Calls

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.327, Penguin

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• The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

  Nikki Haley

  World, Accepting, North Korea

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• Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.349

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• Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Fear, Civilization

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

  Mark Skousen

  Failure, Pay, Ultimate Success

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• The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

  E. V. Lucas

  Honesty, Risk, Ethics

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• Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Different, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Crush, Men, Iron

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

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