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title: "13 Civilized Person Quotes by 12 authors"
description: "Browse 13 Civilized Person quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Civilized Person sayings and thoughts."
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> [“each civilized person in the world should admit that he has two home countries: the one he was born in, and Syria .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-parrot/each-civilized-person-in-the-world-should-admit-that-he-has-two-home/)

[Andrea Parrot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-parrot/)

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> [The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-day/the-test-of-a-civilized-person-is-first-self-awareness-and-then-depth/)

[Clarence Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarence-day/)

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> [“For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/federico-mangahas/for-the-average-civilized-person-to-whom-as-to-patrick-henry-even/)

[Federico Mangahas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/federico-mangahas/)

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> [No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-harding-davis/no-civilized-person-ever-goes-to-bed-the-same-day-he-gets-up/)

[Richard Harding Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-harding-davis/)

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> [The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-goldberg/the-greatest-right-of-a-civilized-person-is-to-be-left-alone-unless/)

[Arthur Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-goldberg/)

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> [Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/good-heredity-and-environment-are-necessary-you-cannot-compare-the/)

[Jiddu Krishnamurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jiddu-krishnamurti/)

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> [With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-matthews/with-the-civilized-person-contentment-is-a-myth-from-the-cradle-to/)

[William Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-matthews/)

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> [Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cleveland-amory/have-you-ever-heard-one-civilized-person-whose-opinion-you-respect-at/)

[Cleveland Amory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cleveland-amory/)

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> [“I'd long wondered if I were really a civilized person, though I kept striving to be one. I knew that at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlaine-harris/i-d-long-wondered-if-i-were-really-a-civilized-person-though-i-kept/)

[Charlaine Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlaine-harris/)

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> [I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlaine-harris/i-could-tell-hugo-was-convinced-that-he-would-get-to-walk-back-up/)

[Charlaine Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlaine-harris/)

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> [I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liz-w-garcia/i-m-a-civilized-person-who-obeys-the-law-and-is-pretty-easy-to-get/)

[Liz W. Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liz-w-garcia/)

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> [“The next day Stapes staged another dinner and I made more mistakes. Commenting on the food wasn’t rude, but it was rustic.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/the-next-day-stapes-staged-another-dinner-and-i-made-more-mistakes/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/civilized-people-must-i-believe-satisfy-the-following-criteria-1-they/)

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

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                        "text": "“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and amenable ... They do not create scenes over a hammer or a mislaid eraser; they do not make you feel they are conferring a great benefit on you when they live with you, and they don't make a scandal when they leave. (...) 2) They have compassion for other people besides beggars and cats. Their hearts suffer the pain of what is hidden to the naked eye. (...) 3) They respect other people's property, and therefore pay their debts. 4) They are not devious, and they fear lies as they fear fire. They don't tell lies even in the most trivial matters. To lie to someone is to insult them, and the liar is diminished in the eyes of the person he lies to. Civilized people don't put on airs; they behave in the street as they would at home, they don't show off to impress their juniors. (...) 5) They don't run themselves down in order to provoke the sympathy of others. They don't play on other people's heartstrings to be sighed over and cosseted ... that sort of thing is just cheap striving for effects, it's vulgar, old hat and false. (...) 6) They are not vain. They don't waste time with the fake jewellery of hobnobbing with celebrities, being permitted to shake the hand of a drunken [judicial orator], the exaggerated bonhomie of the first person they meet at the Salon, being the life and soul of the bar ... They regard prases like 'I am a representative of the Press!!' -- the sort of thing one only hears from [very minor journalists] -- as absurd. If they have done a brass farthing's work they don't pass it off as if it were 100 roubles' by swanking about with their portfolios, and they don't boast of being able to gain admission to places other people aren't allowed in (...) True talent always sits in the shade, mingles with the crowd, avoids the limelight ... As Krylov said, the empty barrel makes more noise than the full one. (...) 7) If they do possess talent, they value it ... They take pride in it ... they know they have a responsibility to exert a civilizing influence on [others] rather than aimlessly hanging out with them. And they are fastidious in their habits. (...) 8) They work at developing their aesthetic sensibility ... Civilized people don't simply obey their baser instincts ... they require mens sana in corpore sano . And so on. That's what civilized people are like ... Reading Pickwick and learning a speech from Faust by heart is not enough if your aim is to become a truly civilized person and not to sink below the level of your surroundings. [From a letter to Nikolay Chekhov, March 1886]”",
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