quotes about Civilized
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Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...
-- Ana Castillo -
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
-- Bergen Evans -
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
-- Bernard Malamud -
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
-- Bob SuttonSource : "The No Asshole Rule". Book by Robert Sutton, February 22, 2007.
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The truly civilized man has no enemies.
-- Charles Fletcher DoleSource : "The Smoke and the Flame: A Study in the Development of Religion". Book by Charles Fletcher Dole, 1902.
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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
-- Epicurus -
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.
-- George Orwell -
I look much more civilized than I actually am.
-- Georgina ChapmanSource : "Georgina Chapman Interview: Red-Carpet Royalty" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 21, 2011.
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France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
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Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
-- J. Maarten TroostSource : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
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Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.
-- James Hong -
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I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.
-- Jean KerrSource : Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday
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Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick -
By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.
-- John Ross -
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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
-- John Stuart Mill -
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
-- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.
-- Louis St. Laurent -
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Source : "Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100". Dissenting opinion, November 21, 1927.
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The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
-- Paul TherouxSource : Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.
-- Peter UstinovSource : Dear Me (1977) ch. 3
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The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
-- Pierre Trudeau -
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.
-- Red Cloud -
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
-- Richard Harding Davis -
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll -
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Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
-- Robert ReichSource : "Break the Koch Machine" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2014.
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
-- Rupert FriendSource : "The 2015 GLAAD Media Awards: 5 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. May 9, 2015.
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Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
-- Stanley Morison -
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
-- Suzanne Vega -
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In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
-- W. L. George -
We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.
-- John MatthewsSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
-- Charles Fourier -