#civilize

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#civilized #earth #great #herman #literature

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#barbarous #christian #civilized #considering #country

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#civilized #done #like #much #must

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#lot #terribly #writing

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#anyone #civilized #creed #curious #every

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilized #only #those #understood #who

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#civilized #effective #equality #fairer #lot

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#been #come #conditions #founded #heroes

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#cannot #civilized #draw #enemy #even

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got