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

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
William O. Douglas

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

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
Cyril Connolly

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Arthur Keith

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
Naguib Mahfouz

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

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

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 Rodr’guez Zapatero

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
Nelson A. Miles

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
John Strachan

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.
John Stuart Mill

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

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

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

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
Christian Lous Lange

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
Alfred North Whitehead