Civilized Man Quotes

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

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.

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

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.