Words matter. These are the best Civilized Society Quotes from famous people such as Greg Boyle, James Fenimore Cooper, Antonin Scalia, Bernie Sanders, Matt Mead, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America’s death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
In general, hateful speech and opinions are protected under the Constitution, except to the extent they are deemed to incite violence or otherwise become illegal. But, at the same time, civilized society tends to frown upon it.
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that’s their problem. But there’s no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook – or accept its inhumane consequences.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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.
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
