Civilized Beings Quotes

#1. Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

Toba Beta

#2. Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Daniel Webster

#3. Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

Tom Chatfield

#4. Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Fiona Paul

#5. I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

Camila Alves

#6. In love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

Ilka Chase

#7. Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Cathy Guisewite

#8. Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.

Sara Evans

#9. And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Aldous Huxley

#10. I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Ayelet Waldman

#11. There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [ ... just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

David Mason

#12. As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

George Orwell

#13. Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

Joe Greene

#16. If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

James J. Kilpatrick

#17. Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

Cesar Chavez

#18. We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.

Saleem Durrani

#19. But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

John Boyne

#20. Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.

Francis De Sales

#21. In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

Anna Camp

#22. One should give up the conditional life of this material world and the association of so-called civilized human beings who are simply following, in a polished way, the same stereotyped principles of eating, sleeping, defending and mating.

Anonymous

#23. The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

Richard Shelby

#25. It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

Ida Tarbell

#26. A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.

Dale Carnegie

#27. When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.

James Randall Robison