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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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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. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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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

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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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