The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.