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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

Topics: Civilization Civilized Consider Degrees Different Different Ways Expressing Many Ways

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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?

~Frances Wright

Topics: Attention Been Civilized Engaged Enlightened Enlisted Feelings Generous Human Liberty May Nations Rightly Understood While

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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

~Friedrich Durrenmatt

Topics: Behavior Civilized Consider Desirable Patriotism

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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

~Friedrich Schiller

Topics: Become Civilized Cry Heard Poor Poorer Rich Richer Throughout Whole World

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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

Topics: Alone Civilized Civilized Society Crimes God Likely Man Most Ought Responsibility Sins Society Treated Ultimate

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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

Topics: Absorb Civilized Concept Generation History Implies Lessons Lose Meaning Own People Preserve Problems Reader Records Relate Scholar Study Study History Them Too Very Without Would

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Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

~George Gilder

Topics: Because Civilized Concerns Interests People Sharply Similar Television Vulgar

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I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

~George Meredith

Topics: Civilized Expect Last Man Thing Will Woman

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

~George Meredith

Topics: Civilized Expect Last Man Thing Will Woman

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Look at these ISIS people. These people are ruthless. They don't operate by any sort of normal civilized code. That's the world. There's a shadow world that exists out there.

~George Newbern

Topics: Any Civilized Code Exists Look Normal Operate Out People Ruthless Shadow Sort World

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