Quotes of: Civilized Keyword

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Smothered Under Journalism: 1946

Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.

Lead

Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior."- Hun, A. T.

Myth Conceptions

The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.

Andrew Forrest

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Benjamin Disraeli

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

Oriana Fallaci

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

P. J. O'Rourke

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

Paul Watson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Roger Ebert

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Robert Fulghum

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

Kane Freeman

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Leonard Woolf

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

Sherwood Anderson

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Norman Borlaug

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Paul Harris

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Sid Bernstein