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Civilized Quotes by Michael Joseph Oakeshott
- This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human…
- The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external…
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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
- 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