Top 25 Civilized Quotes of 44

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

Red Cloud

Writing, Educated, Civilized

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

Russell Means

Want, Civilized, Liberated

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Sacrifice, Important, Civilized Nations

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

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

Walter Gropius

Art, Museums, Civilized Nations

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Charles Fourier

People, Administration, Civilized

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

Stanley Morison

Typography, Civilized, Minors

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

Louis St. Laurent

Civilization, Firsts, Civilized

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

John Ross

Native American, Pursuit, Civilized

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

Ambrose Bierce

Agency, Civilized Nations, Might

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.102, University of Georgia Press

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Robert Reich

Bully, Hallmark, Civilized Society

"Break the Koch Machine" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2014.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Paying Taxes, Civilized Society, Pay

"Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100". Dissenting opinion, November 21, 1927.

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

Max Anders

Missing, Shame, Uncivilized

War is not civilized.

Talib Kweli

War, Civilized

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Daniel Webster

Men, Justice, Civilized Nations

Oration on day of Justice Story's funeral, Boston, Mass., 12 Sept. 1845

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Religion, Civilized

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

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Sonia Sotomayor

Hours, Civilized, New Yorkers

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

Robert Mondavi

Wine, Men, Civilized

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Paul Theroux

Compassion, Behavior, Civilized

Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

States, Civilized, Ought

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2870, e-artnow

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

Jean-Baptiste Say

Ignorant, Term, Civilized

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

Suzanne Vega

Writing, Civilized

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Civilized Nations, Air Power, Aviation

Jeane Kirkpatrick's speech to the U.N. Security Council, www.upi.com. September 6, 1983.

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

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell

Men, Rough, Civilized

"Rudyard Kipling" (1942). This is the closest passage in Orwell's writings that has been found to the following quotation popularly attributed to him: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf " (or sometimes, "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us").