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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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

— W. L. George

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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

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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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

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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