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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience. -- Abigail Disney
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. -- Howard Zinn
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. -- Cyril Connolly
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods. -- Dmitry Medvedev
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. -- Gore Vidal
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India. -- Annie Besant
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness? -- Deborah Sampson
In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized. -- Robert M. Lindner
Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized. -- Jeffrey Tucker
When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized. -- Max Anders
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized. -- Bette Lord
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized. -- Khem Veasna
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. -- Oscar Wilde
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. -- Rudyard Kipling
Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable. -- Augusten Burroughs
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes. -- Winston Churchill
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart. -- William Butler Yeats

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