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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies  (Civilized Quotes) Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late  (Civilized Quotes) The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected  (Civilized Quotes) In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind  (Civilized Quotes) The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company  (Civilized Quotes) With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious  (Civilized Quotes) A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself  (Civilized Quotes) This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future  (Civilized Quotes) Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise  (Civilized Quotes) It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society  (Civilized Quotes) What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less  (Civilized Quotes) 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  (Civilized Quotes) Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional  (Civilized Quotes) Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people  (Civilized Quotes) Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That’s where it will be  (Civilized Quotes) The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature  (Civilized Quotes) ... men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them  (Civilized Quotes) Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is  (Civilized Quotes) Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?  (Civilized Quotes) …their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort  (Civilized Quotes) Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action  (Civilized Quotes) Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn’t live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at  (Civilized Quotes) In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part  (Civilized Quotes) In any civilized society, it is every citizen’s responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen’s responsibility to disobey unjust laws  (Civilized Quotes) The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves  (Civilized Quotes) With all my heart I believe that the world’s present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community  (Civilized Quotes) The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life  (Civilized Quotes) Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world  (Civilized Quotes) There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast  (Civilized Quotes) If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased  (Civilized Quotes)
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