I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you’ve got an adolescent boy, you’re in the sweet spot for trouble.
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man’s ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
The kitchen is tough. It’s one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.
There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan’s, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they’re intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people – men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.
