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Civilized Quotes by Mark Twain
- The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of…
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of…
- Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
- The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.…
- It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the…
- As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
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- 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
- We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. — Unknown Author
- But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser
- The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are… — H. L. Mencken