The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
John Stuart Mill
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change
Will Durant
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting
Bertrand Russell
I don`t belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that`s why I am a member. I believe in its n...
Sting
I know I`ve made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence. I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns. (1976)
Richard Widmark
[Washington, DC, April 3, 2007] Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it`s a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like-or to ...
George W. Bush
[Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino`s agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity. - H.L. Mencken
Rudolph Valentino
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
Alan Grieve
When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.
Kathleen Blanco
Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never wanted to actually hear the words out loud, because then you`d have to admit to yourself that you`d wanted proof, and that somehow made you baser, less civi...
Jodi Picoult
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
Alan Matsui
To eradicate or modify or curb the tendencies which thus survive among civilized men is not a matter of intellectual conviction or training.
Alberto Madrigal
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with...
Robert A. Heinlein
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
Mahmoud Abbas
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
Allan Asher
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
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man`s original savage nature.
Alberto Madrigal
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world`s most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibout...
Thor Heyerdahl
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
Nicholas Meyer
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
John Stuart Mill
