Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are in the act, with your face red with vulgar anger, and the face of the little ch...
