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Civilized Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to…
- I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to…
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- Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among… — Donald Berwick
- Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as… — Annie Besant
- The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away… — 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… — Benjamin Carson
- As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized… — Aberjhani
- I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. — H. L. Mencken