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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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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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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

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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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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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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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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. ↗

— Sally Quinn

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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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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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