Famous quotes containing the word civilized:
“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.”
—Pearl S. Buck (18921973)
“Youve spent too much time with the stars. You dont know anything about living, the law of the jungle, the human jungle. I do, Ive spent my life at it. You dont know what your civilized people will do to cling to life. I do, because I know Id cling if I had to kill to do it. And so will you.”
—Sydney Boehm (19081990)
“We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)