“When you have the civilized countries in this world always pitted against uncivilized countries, you constantly have the potential for wars or military conflicts.”
“Uncivilized thinking, they say in their darkly captivating manifesto, emerges not from the self-absorbed and self-congratulatory metropolitan centers of civilization, but rather from out on the wilder edges of human society.”
“Historians thought the lives of uncivilized folk nasty, brutish and short because, lacking the discipline of strong governments, they must always be fighting each other.”
“It has become almost possible for the citizens of Ann Arbor to recognize us as part of the community instead of curiosities from parts remote and uncivilized and parts not so remote but just as uncivilized.”