Civilized Quote by Ashley Montagu

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True,…

— Mark Steyn

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child,…

— Waris Dirie

“Our revulsion towards cutting the genitals of girls should give us pause, however, for the themes the Western world abhors – removing part of…

— David L. Gollaher

Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

— Jeannine Parvati Baker

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt.…

— Nawal El Saadawi

My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which…

— Stephen Spender

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

— Rabindranath Tagore

These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective…

— Swami Vivekananda

There are certain practices that may be historically acceptable to some people but that have no place in our culture.

— Damian Green

“In an article offering a law enforcement perspective on allegations of ritual abuse, Lanning (1992, A law-enforcement perspective on allegations of ritual abuse) fails…

— Susan E. Devine David A. Sakheim

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

— Joseph Campbell

The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz