#civilized

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

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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

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Is there a gun that shoots rain? Oh yeah, water guns. How technologically advanced we are!  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Sigmund Freud

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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. ↗