Civilized Nations Quotes

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

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

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

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

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.