“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. — Tom McClintock Copy Share Image
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being… — Ken Danby 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
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
I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think… — John Delaney Copy Share Image
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence 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
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff… — Walter Gropius 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
“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
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at… — Henry Anatole Grunwald 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
“Promoting promiscuity in this evolved and civilized society is actually like signing the Declaration, that says: “I hereby renounce my membership of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over… — Frederick Engels Copy Share Image
“The point is, being a Christian does not mean hating or belittling the non-Christians. Being a Muslim does not mean hating or… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them… — Sigmund Freud 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
“Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’ ‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one… — David Weber Copy Share Image
“The aborted research project wasn’t important in and of itself. What mattered was the instruction that Ye Wenjie had given him, so… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without… — John Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to… — Edward Bellamy 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
“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