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Civilised Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my adult life, I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are impossible in a civilised society. They mean less revenue for the state, which means sacked teachers, unemployed doctors, fewer nurses. I am amazed anyone still takes such arrant twaddle seriously.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
- Pretence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
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- Nov 07, 2020