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A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. — Abhijit Naskar

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. — Nelson A. Miles

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato

The true nature of a human being is not compatible with the so-called civilized world. — Bryant McGill

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't torture yourself ... that's my job — Carolyn Jones

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are. — Viggo Mortensen

Don't go ... where I can't follow, please, please, not again ... — Alexandra Bracken

What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't. — Diana Wynne Jones

are all terrorists muslims ?
it's not even close — Dean Obeidallah

It is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark

There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt. — Oscar Wilde

With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. — Oscar Wilde

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award. — Andie MacDowell

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember. — Thomas Lynch

If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda. — Sushma Swaraj

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value. — Robert McKee

Be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos. — Abdul Mueed

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws. — Otto Von Bismarck

I simply refuse to play by the rules. — John McAfee

Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal. — C. G. Jung

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung

I never said I hated the Marine Corps! I only said it was no place for a sensitive, civilized, self-respecting human being. — William Styron

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place. — Anita Borg

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything. — Peter Schjeldahl

Deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky

Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Reality doesn't owe us comfort. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here. — Kathleen Wynne

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized. — Shane Koyczan

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott

No civilized being lived in North Dakota. — Lois Greiman

All is well ... That's my new philosophy ... — Charles M. Schulz

He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer. — Larissa Ione