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
“When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.” — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the… — Tony Randall Copy Share Image
Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
New Yorkers are extremely varied, of course, but we are generally sharing an urban and civilized experience. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
