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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.