Civilized Quotes - Page 9

• The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Law, Civilized Nations, Literature

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• As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Leadership, Men, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman Eugene Kittredge (1912). “Interviews”

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• No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

  James F. Cooper

  Reality, Law, Long

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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• No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

  Will Durant

  Success, Work, Men

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  1895 Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

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• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Political, Society, Paying Taxes

  Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue (dissenting opinion) (1927)

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• Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Perspective, Ornaments, Defense

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• There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Discovery, Soul

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• I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Missing, Links

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• The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  Walter Lippmann

  Power, Principles, Firsts

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

  William Safire

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Knowing

  William Safire (1988). “Coming to terms”, Doubleday

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• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States  of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Lynching, America

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• Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

  Alfred Marshall

  Country, Money, Gold

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Confidence, Men, Mind

  Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556, 1951.

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• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Individuality, Balance, Age

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• I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

  George Meredith

  Funny Inspirational, Women, Lasts

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 1

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• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  Sally Quinn

  Thinking, Roles, Growing

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Promise, Curiosity, Literature

  "Put Out More Flags". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1942.

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• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  Flora Lewis

  Civilization, Degrees, Different

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• She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

  W. L. George

  Men, Educated, Stills

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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Peace, War, Civilized Nations

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• There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

  Amelia Earhart

  War, Done, Barbarism

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Literature, May

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Country, Ethos

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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