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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
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.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
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.
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
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.
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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.
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
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, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.
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.
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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.
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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.