Civilized Man Quotes
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
— Will Durant
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?
— Sinclair Lewis
Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.
— Daniel Quinn
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
— Denis Diderot
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Accepting a man's hospitality is a token of good will, a declaration that you and your host stand on terms of a civilized relationship.
— Ayn Rand
The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos.
— Abdul Mueed
The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
— Theophile Gautier
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
— Rachel Carson
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
— Ezra Pound
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
Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
— Daniel Webster
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
— George Meredith
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
— Robert Mondavi
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
— Bergen Evans
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
— Carl Jung
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
— Konrad Lorenz
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
— Felix Frankfurter
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
— Brian Herbert
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
— Tom Robbins
The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.
— H.L. Mencken
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
— Oscar Wilde
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood
— George Bernard Shaw
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.
— Philip K. Dick
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.
— Earl Felton
In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad
— Pamela Geller
The truly civilized man has no enemies.
— Charles Fletcher Dole
A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come ... sometimes; but (2) pay the bills ... at all times.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.
— Louis Pullig De Gouy
Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The more civilized Man becomes, the more violent he becomes.
— Stanley S. Thornton
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
— Mark Twain