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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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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

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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ↗

— Robert Frost

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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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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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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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