Top 1200 Civilized Society Quotes & Sayings

We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

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

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.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

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.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

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

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

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

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

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

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing.

Taxes are what we pay for 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.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

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

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

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

The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

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

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

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

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

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

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?

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a 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

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

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal policies promote mobs because liberals crawl on the mobs, the destruction wrought by the mobs to attain power. Tere's only one way to react to a mob to save civilized society, and that is to smash the mob. It is not to mollycoddle the mob.

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

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.

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

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

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

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

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

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.

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.

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.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.