Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In The Descent of Man, Darwin says: With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett 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
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
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
“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
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
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. — Cesar Chavez 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
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
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
“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
“Help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power, not because you are good person, nor because you… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen 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
