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In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

—Truman, Harry S

It is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave offeating animals, assurelyas the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they come in contact with the more civilized.

—Thoreau, Henry David

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

I am well as long as I live on horseback†sleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few days†I have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.

—Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilised.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

En ge¤  ne¤  ral, plus un peuple est civilise¤  , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe¤  tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

—Diderot, Denis