The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I'm truthful -- which is very nearly unpardonable in civilized society.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. — Mike Schmidt 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
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
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. — Sigmund Freud 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
“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
“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
The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“She wouldn’t open her heart to me, because she’d know someone else would read the letter and learn her secrets. And I… — Lena Manta Copy Share Image
“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is… — A.G. Riddle 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
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact… — Muhammad Yunus 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
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
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 was so struck by Flow’s negative implications for parents that I decided I wanted to speak to Csikszentmihalyi, just to make… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“It just hangs there. This little... flap of flesh. And there's so much fuss that we make about it. I think the… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“Money was the blood of civilized society, its currents running through everything and everyone. Where money was insufficient, things withered. People starved,… — wildbow 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
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no… — Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“Oh, but Barack Obama was no mere man. He was a paragon of intelligence and civilized society. A savior to the world’s… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
“As we grow up in civilized society, we are measured, evaluated, educated and trained, licensed and credentialed, and are eventually classified and… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects? I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
