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In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world! — Arthur Schopenhauer

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. — E.L. Konigsburg

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

...People so often ignored their gut because of social niceties and expectations. Luckily Dax didn't have that issue; he was barely fucking civilized. — Katie Reus

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people ... — Charles Fourier

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. — John Ashcroft

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man. — Daniel Quinn

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. — Anne Frank

I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be a problem. — Kevin Wilson

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart. — Samuel V. Chamberlain

...Don't you ever get the feeling that for all that people try to be so civilized and sophisticated, we're really just animals pretending to be human? — Marie Zhuikov

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

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized. — Herb Kawainui Kane

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security. — Sigmund Freud

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. — Bertrand Russell

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams

You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that — William Goldman

It is how decent, civilized people behave, Captain Ransom. Though I suppose that to someone of your level of moral fortitude, it must seem remarkable. — Jim Butcher

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future. — Mary Cassatt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture. — Fran Lebowitz

And we'll punish the people who don't conform. Not bodily of course. This is a civilized country. — Lauren Oliver

Even today, the politics of religion does not allow the subcontinent to become civilized and its people to become truly educated. — Taslima Nasrin

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders — Eric Cantor

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized — Hugh Hammond Bennett

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. — Timothy Leary

Civilized people don't feel. — Mervyn Peake

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people. — John Wayne

It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business. — Clark Ashton Smith

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence. — John Zerzan

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol

If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace. — Ann Medlock