Civilized Quotes - Page 34

• If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Wish, Culture, Looks

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• There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

  George Will

  Order, Space, Needs

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• That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Men, Law

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.2070, e-artnow

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• The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Europe, Curiosity

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Class, People

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• No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Self, Hymns

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

  Henry Petroski

  Book, Home, Mean

  Henry Petroski (2010). “The Book on the Bookshelf”, p.11, Vintage

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• You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Long, Feelings, Guilt

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1728, Random House

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• The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

  Theophile Gautier

  Men, Occupation, Fitting

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• It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

  Robert Sheckley

  Police, Trouble, Truism

  Robert Sheckley (2006). “Mindswap”, p.22, Macmillan

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• There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

  John Zerzan

  People, Violence, Hollowness

  "'We don't know what's going to happen. If we say we're doomed, we are, full stop.' A Q&A with John Zerzan and Zander Sherman". logger.believermag.com. December 4, 2015.

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• Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun to lead the free world to protect our civilized way of life.

  Jeb Bush

  Gun, America, Water

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• War is not civilized.

  Talib Kweli

  War

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• [E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.

  David Horowitz

  Heart, Reality, Light

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• The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

  Franz Liszt

  Numbers, Musician, Firsts

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• Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

  Marisha Pessl

  Phones, World, Phone Calls

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.327, Penguin

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• The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Sight, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• 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”

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• Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Gay, Mind, Delight

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• Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Animal, Giving, Body

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

  Neal Shusterman

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Ignorance, Race

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• The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

  Nikki Haley

  World, Accepting, North Korea

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• Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

  Adam Smith

  Order, Numbers, People

  "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, (Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2), 1776.

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• The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Sweet, Art, Quality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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