#civilize

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

— Tom McClintock

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

— George Meredith

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

— George Meredith

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When did one man ever civilize a people? ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#did #ever #man #people

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. ↗

— Simon Raven

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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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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

— Mike Schmidt

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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#civilization #civilized #emerson #quote #reading