#civilized

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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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

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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

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