“I'm truthful -- which is very nearly unpardonable in civilized society.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. — Henry George 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
“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
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
“I repeat: there is no place for monsters in civilized society. If such creatures roam the earth, they do so out on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, beyond the primordial, brutish labels of man-made institutions, true practical religion of the civilized society must bring oneness. This very process… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a… — Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Integrity is doing what is right. Ethics is doing what is right for a society. The philosophy of ethics is very interesting… — Debasish Mridha 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 fascinating. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Why should women have to give up their name upon marriage, as if they are nothing but hood ornaments to their husbands!… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“When the boys were little, I used to take them to the gleaming white Jefferson Memorial at the edge of the Tidal… — Khizr Khan 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
“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life in pursuit of the remade world... I believe in truth. I believe in truth denied any use… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and… — Charles J. Sykes 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
“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
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