Uncivilized Quotes

• All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Progress, Society

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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• When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

  Max Anders

  Missing, Shame, Corporate

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• In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Compassion, Mind, Atheism

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• Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Patriotism, Democracy

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• It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

  Khem Veasna

  Race, Impossible, Dignity

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• Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Believe, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.236, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Inferiority, Moral

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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• Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Community, Literature, Cruelty

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.234, Prestwick House Inc

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• Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Men, Progress

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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• We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Rocks, Treats

  Source: collider.com

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• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

  Live Life, Men, Civilization

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.31, Del Rey

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• This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Race, Mind, World

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1966). “Cicero”

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• The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dark, People, Savages

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity. . . . How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?"

  Juan Gines de Sepulveda

  Blessing, Men, People

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• In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.

  William P. Young

  Book, Communication, Voice

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, books.google.ru. June 20, 2008.

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• An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Passion, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• ...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Thinking, People

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• Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

  Howard Zinn

  Taught, Action, Humane

  "Quotations on Terrorism". Book by Harry Kawilarang (p. 61), 2004.

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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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• Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Hero, Scene, States

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dirty, Animal, Troublesome

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Men, Yellow

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• We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.

  Walter E. Williams

  Gun, Law, Yesterday

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• I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Use, Tribes

  "The Churchill you didn't know". Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

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