Civility Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Words like “Society” and “State” are so concretized that they are almost personified. In the opinion of the man in the street, the “State,”…

— C.G. Jung

“It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make…

— Karl Hess

“A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit…

— Santosh Kalwar

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes…

— John Adams

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

— John Milton

“Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline”

— Topsy Gift

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced…

— Russell Kirk

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power,…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson