Civilized Society Quotes

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There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!

Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom.

In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.