War is not civilized.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

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

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society here would be quite civilized.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values we believed than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

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. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.

Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.

Justice sir is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

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.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

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.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Money not morality is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split as a general thing.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist and believed blind eternal fate I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.