#civilize

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

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#harassment #impunity #inflict #kind #man

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ↗

— Earl Warren

#ethics #floats #law #life #sea

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#anyone #civilized #creed #curious #every

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

#chewing #chewing gum #civilized #country #gum