Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

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

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

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

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

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

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.

Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

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.

I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where we should be as a civilized society.

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.

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.

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.

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.

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.

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.

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

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