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Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world... but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon  (Civilized Quotes) Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly compassionate, civilized society  (Civilized Quotes) France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it  (Civilized Quotes) Glory is a scandal. Let me state once and for all: I do not wish to be civilized  (Civilized Quotes) Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society  (Civilized Quotes) Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government  (Civilized Quotes) Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized  (Civilized Quotes) Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals  (Civilized Quotes) If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth  (Civilized Quotes) Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men  (Civilized Quotes) No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means  (Civilized Quotes) In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor  (Civilized Quotes) Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men  (Civilized Quotes) No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women  (Civilized Quotes) If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive  (Civilized Quotes) Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance  (Civilized Quotes) You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures  (Civilized Quotes) If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others  (Civilized Quotes) Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed  (Civilized Quotes) The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write  (Civilized Quotes) The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be  (Civilized Quotes) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized  (Civilized Quotes) Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities  (Civilized Quotes) Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change  (Civilized Quotes) Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances  (Civilized Quotes) Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other  (Civilized Quotes) If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man’s reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines  (Civilized Quotes) Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness  (Civilized Quotes) In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination  (Civilized Quotes) Direct and easy communications - freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense - has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity  (Civilized Quotes)
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