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«Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.»
Author: Allan Massie
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«Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen»
«Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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«Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Sex
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«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Government
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«If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.»
Author: Robert Frost
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Society
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«Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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«Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours.»
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