Uncivilized Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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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 to be forgotten.…
— Annie Besant
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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
— Winston Churchill
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Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars…
— Anne Frank
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...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right…
— Brock Chisholm
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POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
— Cyril Connolly
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the…
— G. Willow Wilson
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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
— H. L. Mencken
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In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind,…
— Robert M. Lindner
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The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
— Howard Zinn
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God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing…
— Yann Martel
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Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want to be alone…
— Lisa Kleypas
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In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow…
— William P. Young
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