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#civilize

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civilize




The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.


Vladimir Zhirinovsky


#allowed #civilized #civilized world #decision #needs

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.


Denis Diderot


#harassment #impunity #inflict #kind #man

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

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.


John Charles Polanyi


#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

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.


Elihu Root


#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.


Harriet Ann Jacobs


#contagious #cruelty #uncivilized

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.


Aleksander Kwasniewski


#civilized world #common #countries #democratic #fulfillment

War is not civilized.


Talib Kweli


#war

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.


Friedrich Schiller


#civilized #civilized world #cry #heard #poor

Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and amenable ... They do not create scenes over a hammer or a mislaid eraser; they do not make you feel they are conferring a great benefit on you when they live with you, and they don't make a scandal when they leave. (...) 2) They have compassion for other people besides beggars and cats. Their hearts suffer the pain of what is hidden to the naked eye. (...) 3) They respect other people's property, and therefore pay their debts. 4) They are not devious, and they fear lies as they fear fire. They don't tell lies even in the most trivial matters. To lie to someone is to insult them, and the liar is diminished in the eyes of the person he lies to. Civilized people don't put on airs; they behave in the street as they would at home, they don't show off to impress their juniors. (...) 5) They don't run themselves down in order to provoke the sympathy of others. They don't play on other people's heartstrings to be sighed over and cosseted ... that sort of thing is just cheap striving for effects, it's vulgar, old hat and false. (...) 6) They are not vain. They don't waste time with the fake jewellery of hobnobbing with celebrities, being permitted to shake the hand of a drunken [judicial orator], the exaggerated bonhomie of the first person they meet at the Salon, being the life and soul of the bar ... They regard prases like 'I am a representative of the Press!!' -- the sort of thing one only hears from [very minor journalists] -- as absurd. If they have done a brass farthing's work they don't pass it off as if it were 100 roubles' by swanking about with their portfolios, and they don't boast of being able to gain admission to places other people aren't allowed in (...) True talent always sits in the shade, mingles with the crowd, avoids the limelight ... As Krylov said, the empty barrel makes more noise than the full one. (...) 7) If they do possess talent, they value it ... They take pride in it ... they know they have a responsibility to exert a civilizing influence on [others] rather than aimlessly hanging out with them. And they are fastidious in their habits. (...) 8) They work at developing their aesthetic sensibility ... Civilized people don't simply obey their baser instincts ... they require mens sana in corpore sano. And so on. That's what civilized people are like ... Reading Pickwick and learning a speech from Faust by heart is not enough if your aim is to become a truly civilized person and not to sink below the level of your surroundings. [From a letter to Nikolay Chekhov, March 1886]


Anton Chekhov


#civilization #civilized-behavior #decency #good-manners #high-mindedness






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