Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with the breakdown of the family. The family is ...
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.
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
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.
Literature is called adabiyat in Islam precisely because it is seen as the keeper of a civilization and the collector of teachings and statements that educate the self and society with adab such that both are elevated to the rank of the cultured man ...
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 respect...
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
