Quotes 21 till 40 of 49.
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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.
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It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
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One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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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.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
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The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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