Civilized Communities Quotes
- In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces. — W. Somerset Maugham
- In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its… — James Madison
- With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
- Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. — Albert Bushnell Hart