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.

The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

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.

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.

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

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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

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

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.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

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.

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

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.

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 a stick.

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.

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.