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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.
The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.
Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.
As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.
I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.
Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
