Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated… — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic… — William Greider Copy Share Image
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
“The point is, being a Christian does not mean hating or belittling the non-Christians. Being a Muslim does not mean hating or… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“The aborted research project wasn’t important in and of itself. What mattered was the instruction that Ye Wenjie had given him, so… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didin't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we didn't… — John (Fire) Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’ ‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one… — David Weber Copy Share Image
“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without… — John Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“It may seem paradoxical to claim that stress, a physiological mechanism vital to life, is a cause of illness. To resolve this… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image