#civilized

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#chain #civilized #civilized man #connection #country

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. ↗

— W. L. George

#been #civilized #educated #largely #less

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#crush #jealousy #repressing-emotions #school #jealousy

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#causing #civilized #country #each #europe

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#france #nation #numbers #only #patrons

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilized #only #those #understood #who

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#could #english #here #how #irish

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

#america #burning #civilized #confessed #hanging

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #civilized #civilized nations #engaged #enlightened

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

— Konrad Lorenz

#believe #civilized #civilized man #day #discharge