Civilized Quotes

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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the… — Donald Berwick
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten.… — Annie Besant
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that… — James Cameron
I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the… — Benjamin Carson
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people… — Aberjhani
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people… — Stephen A. Douglas
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. — H. L. Mencken
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. — Adrian G. Duplantier
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows… — Hans Zinsser
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable… — H. L. Mencken
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. — Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and… — Edith Wharton
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the… — J. William Fulbright
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. — Rabindranath Tagore
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than… — Sean O'Casey

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