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«Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.»
Author: Daniel Webster (Orator, Senator, Statesman) | About: Justice | Keywords: civilized, sir
«In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.»
«If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.»
«Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.»
«It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.»
«It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.»
«If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.»
«No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.»
«Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion»
«Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Music | Keywords: civilized, sounds, tune

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