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“I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.”

Real Use Unexpected Gas Being Real Tribes Favour Poisonous Uncivilized

Author:Winston Churchill

“Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.”

“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”

Force Views Democracy Violence Pressure Patriotism Conformity Compulsion Uncivilized

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“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?"”

“Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.”

Ifs Bigs Taken Car Assuming Radio Jew Rough Camps Holocaust Acquaintance Cattle Holland Uncivilized Gestapo Jewish Friends

Author:Anne Frank

“...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.”

“POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.”

Literature Atheism Civilization Civilized Forgiven Uncivilized

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.”

Animal Dirty Troublesome Convicts Uncivilized

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.”

Ifs Has Beens Ends States Hands Past Liberty Feet Praying Bones Strings Dirt Hygiene Uncivilized Private Parts Recent Past

Author:G. Willow Wilson

“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.”

Knows Men Moral He Man Certainty Skeptic Inferiority Moral Values Uncivilized

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“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.”

Mind Compassion Atheism Mass Crowds Positive Atheism Gang Herds Subtlety Uncivilized

Author:Robert M. Lindner

“The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.”

Firsts Doe Stills Hard Three Term History Generations Conditions Authority Features Characteristics Rough Partnership Exceed Dynasty Ferocity Uncivilized Rural Life Three Generations

Author:Ibn Khaldun