Civilized Life Quotes
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Civilized Life Quotes & Sayings
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For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.
— Federico Mangahas
A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water.
— Abhijit Naskar
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
— Bergen Evans
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
— Michael Broadbent
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
— Josephine Baker
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
— Robertson Davies
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.
— James Clavell
Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.
— Philip Roth
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
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
— Robert E. Howard
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
Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
— Raymond Loewy
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
— Walter Gropius
Some instincts are best left uncivilized
— Agona Apell
We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked.
— Jeffrey Rasley
The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living ...
— Dione Lucas
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.
— George Orwell
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
— Lyman Abbott
Civilized life exacts its toll.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.
— John Zerzan
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
— Cyril Connolly
To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
— Sherwood Anderson
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
— Earl Warren
Reading civilized the inner life.
— Mason Cooley
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
— Stanley Morison