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title: "11 Civilised Man Quotes by 11 authors"
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> [“To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaiah-berlin/to-realise-the-relative-validity-of-one-s-convictions-and-yet-stand/)

[Isaiah Berlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaiah-berlin/)

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> [A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/a-civilised-man-is-someone-who-has-discovered-something-more/)

[John Keegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-keegan/)

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> [It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-finley/it-is-a-mark-of-civilised-man-that-he-seeks-to-understand-his/)

[Moses Finley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-finley/)

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> [The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-true-savage-is-a-slave-and-is-always-talking-about-what-he-must/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/intellectuals-never-sound-more-foolish-than-when-posing-as-the-last/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/on-this-waterlogged-landscape-are-scattered-palaces-and-hovels-it-is/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-verne/i-am-not-what-you-call-a-civilised-man-i-have-done-with-society/)

[Jules Verne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-verne/)

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> [If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/if-you-want-to-be-a-civilised-man-first-you-have-to-be-a-non-violent/)

[Mehmet Murat Ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/just-as-the-savage-must-wrestle-with-nature-to-satisfy-his-wants-to/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/civilised-man-is-born-and-dies-a-slave-the-infant-is-bound-up-in/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [“And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/and-he-judged-of-others-by-himself-not-believing-in-what-he-saw-and/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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