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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civilize
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ↗
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. ↗
Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗
A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. ↗
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. ↗
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They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. ↗