Civilized Quotes - Page 2

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

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

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

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Glamour is just sex that got civilized.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.