civilized quotes

I am well as long as I live on horseback†sleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few days†I have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.

- Isabella married name Isabella Bishop Bird
  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

En ge  ne  ral, plus un peuple est civilise  , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe  tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

- Denis Diderot
  Discours sur la poe  sie dramatique.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, pt.1,'England Your England'.

It is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave offeating animals, assurelyas the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they come in contact with the more civilized.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Higher Laws'.

In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

- Harry S Truman
  On the10th anniversary of the United Nations, 24 Jun.

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

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.