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We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long… — Jacque Fresco
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be… — Jacque Fresco
It's true we have our disagreements on border issues, we have disagreements on trade and related issues, but you don't go invading a country whenever… — Meles Zenawi
I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't… — Charlie Munger
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. — Joan Ganz Cooney
There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living. — Janet Guthrie
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the… — William Allingham
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons. — Bergen Evans
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone… — Nicholas Meyer
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a… — B. Traven
Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. — Edward Dahlberg
Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The… — Rajneesh
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up… — Lauren Willig
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized… — William Wilberforce
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital,… — Patrick Geddes
Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or… — Charles Lindbergh
Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept… — Qiu Jin
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. — Will Durant
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or… — Peter Hitchens
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity. — Robert E. Lee
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out… — Ambrose Bierce
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. — Bertrand Russell

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