“ MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ”
- Judith Martin- Copy
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“ Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ”
- Judith Martin- Copy
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“ I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. ”
- David Grayson- Copy
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“ The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. ”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. ”
- Allan Massie- Copy
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“ Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
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“ I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ”
- George Meredith- Copy
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“ Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Willard Gaylin- Copy
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“ The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Copy
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“ The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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