The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized. . . The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm. . . a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.
A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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.
There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.
. . . it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U. S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
I look much more civilized than I actually am.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
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.