#civilize

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ↗

— Judith Martin

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Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

#free #hold #prisoners #societies

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ↗

— George Meredith

#expect #i #last #man #thing

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ↗

— George Meredith

#expect #i #last #man #thing

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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When did one man ever civilize a people? ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#did #ever #man #people

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. ↗

— George Osborne

#civilized #civilized society #generous #hard #least