Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
This is the strangest period that I can recall in my lifetime, because individuals that will encourage their own children even, to blow themselves to kingdom come to take our innocent men, women and children, is something that is unconscionable. These are like uncivilized animals.
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity 'Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men the Indians in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity.... How can we doubt that these people so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities have been justly conquered.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
I think it was a brutal time filled with people who were strangely sophisticated and uncivilized. Over the years movies tended to take a Victorian gentleman's view of this world all marbleized sets and men. But Caesar was a great warrior and writer and a war criminal, by our definition. ...There was a dichotomy between sophistication and viciousness that was specifically Roman.
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.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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