Civilised Quotes
Quotes on dignity, duty, and what makes a society truly civilised.
These civilised quotes range from praising countries that let the elderly Die with dignity to describing a life of leisure as beautiful and ennobling. One quote frames civility as a society's active duty toward the vulnerable.
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
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I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.
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We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
All my adult life, I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are impossible in a civilised society. They mean less revenue for the state, which means sacked teachers, unemployed doctors,...
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Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their...
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs...
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
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Even travel gets the civilised label, with one quote preferring the Eurostar to flying. For more on what makes a life feel worthwhile, see Great quotes.
