Top Civilized Quotes
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz
Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.
Vito Fossella
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Dean Inge All Civilized Quotes
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge 
73% of people like this quote
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells
65% of people like this quote
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
62% of people like this quote
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz
60% of people like this quote
Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.
Vito Fossella
59% of people like this quote
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
59% of people like this quote
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
Mary Cassatt
58% of people like this quote
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Flora Lewis
57% of people like this quote
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann
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