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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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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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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. ↗

— King Hussein I

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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. ↗

— Flora Lewis

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I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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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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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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