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Civilized Society Quotes

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde

Civilized society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible,
- Ernest Becker

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

The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutant dance and were banished forever from civilized society
- Michelle Cooper

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

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.
- Santosh Kalwar

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.
- Geoffrey Fisher

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

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
- Walter Gropius

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
- Henry Anatole Grunwald

...baseball freely admits that the sport--like civilized society--is crawling with bums.
- Dan Gutman

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.
- Nicholas Meyer

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

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

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.
- Mark Skousen

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
- John Paul Stevens

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
- J Maarten Troost

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