Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that… — H.D.F. Kitto Copy Share Image
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“In civilized society, we humans are responsible for nurturing and sustaining the force of inter-relational harmony in our lives.” — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“These rights stand above the law of the land and, being universal in nature, are common to civilized society everywhere in the… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“This is the way a civilized society begins to devour itself. By allowing our political leaders and law enforcement officials to scapegoat… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
In general, hateful speech and opinions are protected under the Constitution, except to the extent they are deemed to incite violence or… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!” — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. — Mike Schmidt Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
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