Quotes of: Civilized-society Keyword

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Baruch Spinoza

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

George Orwell

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Daniel Webster

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Cyril Connolly

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

Gustave Courbet

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spencer

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

John Henrik Clarke

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Daniel Pipes

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

George Takei

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

Dave Hickey

The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".

Jeremy Grantham

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

Jason Epstein

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Samuel P. Huntington

Lou: Reject the basic assumption of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Fight Club

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.

Joseph P. Bradley

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Shirin Ebadi