Civilized Quotes - Page 7

• Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• . . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

  Nathaniel Altman

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

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• There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Earthquakes, Lightning

  DANIEL WEBSTER (1853). “THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II”, p.514

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• Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

  Tom Standage

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

  Jon Evans

  Life, Abuse, Society

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• Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, Opportunity, Each Day

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.96, Penguin

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• The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Reading, World, Pulse

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• Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Enlightenment, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Men, Animal

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• Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Brother, Years, Way

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

  Billy Joel

  Technology, Culture, Culmination

  Song: Running On Ice, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, People, Romance

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• I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Community, Insanity

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Years, Thousand

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 33, 1949.

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• It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.

  Noam Chomsky

  Commitment, Rights, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Ideas, Moral

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• No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Humanity, Society

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.427, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Way, Rooms

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• Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Fear, People, Basic Human Rights

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

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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  Walter Gropius

  Guiding Principles, Design, Intellectual

  "Form and Function", www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  God, Jesus, Believe

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• In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

  Earl Warren

  Sea, Law, Ethics

  Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City, November 11, 1962.

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• A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Enemy

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• A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

  George Osborne

  States, Should, Whole Life

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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