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
“A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no… — Felix Adler 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story 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 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
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday.… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of… — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply be yond… — Adam Smith 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