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Kevin Dutton
“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
tags: civilised, reasonable, soft, vice, virtue, weak
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Kamand Kojouri
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight,
for as soon as I come
to pen a few words,
your perfume attacks me
in the most civilised manner
and I forget myself.
I forget the poem.
I forget the ...”
― Kamand Kojouri
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Ann Leckie
“If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
tags: civilised, life, tea
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Robert Jackson Bennett
“It is quite complicated, being civilised.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, American Elsewhere
tags: civilised
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Ann Leckie
“To be Radchaai is to be civilised.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
tags: civilised
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Paul Russell
“The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
tags: civilised, policeman
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“No matter how high you’ve fly in your life, always stay grounded. Don’t let success and money get into your head. Stay humble, humane, and civilised.”
― Raihan Zubir
tags: always, civilised, grounded, humane, humble, inspirational, life, money, success, wisdom
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“The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.”
― Sunday Adelaja
tags: civilised, develop, diligence, earth, hard-work, labour, prayers, suppose
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Mehmet Murat ildan
“No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
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Mehmet Murat ildan
“When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
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“Biggest fallacy of legal system in civilised societies is that ‘truth” has to be proved, so by default ‘untruth’ prevails.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
tags: civilisation, civilised, fallacy, life, social, society, truth, untruth
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Rick Steves
“A third of the people on this planet eat with spoons and forks like you, a third of the people eat with chopsticks, and a third of the people eat with their fingers like me. and we're all civilized just the same.”
― Rick Steves, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
tags: civilised
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