#civilize

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country. ↗

— Tony Randall

#classical #country #county #every #everyone

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#almost #civilized #constantly #depends #existence

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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#discipline #either #else #natural #others

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#asia #civilized #going #methods #much

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#centrally #civilized #civilized society #civilized world #complete

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#balance #bottom #civilized #else #founded

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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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

#communications #down #electricity #get #goes

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future. ↗

— Mary Cassatt

#future #i #i think #love #me

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. ↗

— George Gilder

#civilized #concerns #differentiated #interests #people