And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory. " And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.
Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day.
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
Poetry is priceless. . . . a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
I like things that are civilized.
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'