Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
“I expect a civil word for a civil word!”
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“There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”
Roger Zelazny
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Source: The Great Book of Amber
“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.
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(1949) English doctor and writer
Sex and the Shakespeare Reader http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2003).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
Silvio Berlusconi
(1936) Italian politician
His response to widespread condemnation of the above comments, in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm
2001
Context: They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech … I did not say anything against the Islamic civilization... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims.
Charles Lindbergh
(1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Of Flight and Life (1948)
P. W. Botha
(1916–2006) South African prime minister
As state president at a parade of the SA Police College, Pretoria, 20 June 1986, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 37