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It’s easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? there’s that sadist quality. Y’know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it  (Civilized Quotes) It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers  (Civilized Quotes) The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society  (Civilized Quotes) To realize the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian  (Civilized Quotes) The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities  (Civilized Quotes) 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  (Civilized Quotes) Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting  (Civilized Quotes) I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers  (Civilized Quotes) In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments. The people have my sympathies. I must address them directly  (Civilized Quotes) We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism  (Civilized Quotes) Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past  (Civilized Quotes) We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society  (Civilized Quotes) What we don’t need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight  (Civilized Quotes) 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  (Civilized Quotes) With the civilized man contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave he is forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained  (Civilized Quotes) The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is a necessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of a civilized people  (Civilized Quotes) A country is considered the more civilized the more wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful  (Civilized Quotes) I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer  (Civilized Quotes) Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them  (Civilized Quotes) A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives  (Civilized Quotes) Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing  (Civilized Quotes) We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age  (Civilized Quotes) I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women  (Civilized Quotes) Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you’re going to find anywhere in the world  (Civilized Quotes) The more fortunate people among us would surely think we are civilized, but the less fortunate among us are a reminder that we’re not  (Civilized Quotes) The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do  (Civilized Quotes) I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization  (Civilized Quotes) The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world  (Civilized Quotes) Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom  (Civilized Quotes) In civilized communities men’s idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces  (Civilized Quotes)
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