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"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures." »Plato
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"Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures." »Plato
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"I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man." »George Meredith
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"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."" »Author Unknown
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"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." »Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." »Judith Martin
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"Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived." »Bertrand Russell
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"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." »William Safire
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"It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste." »Evelyn Waugh
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"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste." »Evelyn Waugh
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"What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." »William Safire
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning." »George Frost Kennan
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"A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful." »Primo Levi
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"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions." »Walter Lippmann
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." »Cesar Chavez, letter
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