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
Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over the ages, and a mark of… — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
“A truly civilized society establishes the values and morals which distinguish human beings from animals.” — Hatem A. Aly Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural… — Joseph Story 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
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and… — Roger Wolcott Sperry 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. — Andy Hargreaves 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
“Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders — Eric Cantor 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
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume Copy Share Image