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  • One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink or gambling.

    War   Men   Past  
    Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head. Throw people from the sixth floor, their own people. ... They're the enemies of peace, they're the enemies of Israel, they're the enemies of all civilized countries. And I believe they're the enemies of the Palestinians themselves.

  • A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

    "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.
  • The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

    Thomas Nagel (2010). “Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008”, p.34, Oxford University Press
  • Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

    Mean   Speech   Etiquette  
    Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume
  • 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.

    Home   Support   Needs  
  • Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

  • But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.

    Revenge   Islam   Hurtful  
    David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.135
  • Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

  • It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

  • Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

    Names   Giving   Needs  
    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”
  • Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

    Animal   Giving   Body  
    Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
  • It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

    War   Men   Light  
    David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.38, Harvard University Press
  • Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

    Brother   Years   Way  
    "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.
  • Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

  • There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

  • The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

    War   Lying   Men  
    Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
  • With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

  • the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

    Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.220, Granta Books
  • So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

    "Noble House". Book by James Clavell, April 1981.
  • Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

    Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books
  • Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

    Regret   Believe   Men  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.236, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Glamour is just sex that got civilized.

    Sex   Glamour   Civilized  
  • Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

    Life   Animal   Men  
  • For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

    "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
  • We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

    Food   Book   Men  
    'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24
  • There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

    Mother   Believe   Son  
    Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.17, Routledge
  • Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

    Men   Race   Long  
    Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.533, Beard Books
  • I think Jorge Borges said that when Argentineans die they turn into angels and go and live in Uruguay. But for the rest of South America, you have to say that it's getting there - becoming civilized - and will get there. It's had a real grit war in history. The choice between those societies until recently was the choice between tyranny and chaos. Everyone understood that. You've got to have a strong man, or it's going to be a mess.

    Strong   Real   War  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

    Mind   Wish   Philosopher  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.592, Penguin
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