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Jai Ganesh

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Civilized Quotes - II

Civilized Quotes - II

1. We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones - and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth. - Donald Trump

2. Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. - Sigmund Freud

3. When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. - Ayn Rand

4. A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. - Ezra Pound

5. We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

6. The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be. - James Cameron

7. On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops. - Alfred Nobel

8. We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement. - Vladimir Putin.

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