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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. ↗

— Elihu Root

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In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional. ↗

— Donald Berwick

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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

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