Civilized Quotes - Page 35

• The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

  Margaret Murray

  Religious, Race, Views

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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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• Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

  Ana Castillo

  Paris, Promise, Decency

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books

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• We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

  Robyn Carr

  Divorce, Together, Found

  robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”

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• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

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• The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

  Boris Sidis

  Community, Diagnosis, Recognition

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.

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• Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sports, Swimming, Rushing

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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 K. Simpson

  Home, Support, Needs

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• Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Dream, Writing, Order

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• We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Eye, Men

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• In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Healing

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, Tolerance

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• Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Men, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Race, Long

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.533, Beard Books

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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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• The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, Practice, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

  Hassan Blasim

  Years, Economic Sanctions, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous, and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Needs, Levels, Subconscious

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Community

  Source: jonrappoport.wordpress.com

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