Civilized Quotes
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Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
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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.
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People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.
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The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.
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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.
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I look much more civilized than I actually am.
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I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
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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.
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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
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As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.
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Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.
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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.
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Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
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Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
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This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.
