Quotes about civilized
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Use and Misuse of Children
We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.
James Connolly -
It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What love
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.
Nikola Tesla -
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspape
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!
Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and Her German Garden
These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and energy of the man who can administer such eloquent rebukes. In Russia, not only may a man beat his wife, but it is laid down in the catechism and taught all boys at the time of confirmation as necessary at least once a week, whether she has done anything or not, for the sake of her general health and happiness."I thought I observed a tendency in the Man
Esther Vilar -
When will women become civilized enough to stop mistreating men? When will they cease from training their lovers to become providers, merely because they have the power to do so?As long as they continue as they are, men have no alternative to polygamy.
Anthony T. Hincks -
The world is a giant zoo. The trouble is, not all of the animals are civilized.
Muhammad Imran Hasan -
CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color.... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up....
Sunday Adelaja -
It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be.
Alexander von Humboldt - 1858
While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.
Abhijit Naskar -
Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist – a theoretical pest from the stone-age, who somehow managed to survi
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.
George Meredith - The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become mutual authorities of the collective life that they build together.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
A healthy marriage acts as the vessel of wellbeing and stability for both partners as well as the children.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.
Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Kamand Kojouri -
Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...
Mehmet Murat ildan -
No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!
Robert G. Ingersoll - Woman and Child
When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.
John R. Dallas Jr. - Home and Everywhere
A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.
Alfred Marshall -
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.