Quotes About Civilized Behavior

#1. Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.

Douglas Preston

#2. Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Arthur Miller

#3. respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior,

Diana Gabaldon

#4. The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Paul Theroux

#5. Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

Judith Martin

#6. We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#7. If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. the son of Olaf. The latter was a tall,

Peter Darman

#9. We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of 'civilized' manners and 'cultured' social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us.

Stephen Batchelor

#10. grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book.

Helen Simonson

#11. Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...

Warren Eyster

#12. I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

Jacki Weaver

#13. He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer.

Larissa Ione

#14. When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Ayn Rand

#15. In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. Some instincts are best left uncivilized

Agona Apell

#17. He had no bag, which was strange. But overall it was vaguely reassuring to have such a man on board, especially after he had proved himself civilized and not in any way threatening. Threatening behavior from a man that size would have been unseemly. Good manners from a man that size were charming.

Lee Child

#18. Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

Margaret Cavendish

#19. In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

Rand Paul

#20. Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.

Oliver Markus

#21. It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

Pete Townshend

#22. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

Orrin Woodward

#23. 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

#24. It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.

Selma Fraiberg