Quotes of: Civilized-society Keyword

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

John F. Kennedy

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

John McGahern

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Vidal Sassoon

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Karl Rove

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

Nancy Pearcey

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

Michael Porter

I like things that are civilized.

Martha Plimpton

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

Stephen Carter

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.

The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole.

Santosh Kalwar

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

Dennis Hastert

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

George Soros

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Adrienne Rich

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

Christopher Dawson

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

Vint Cerf

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorfu...

Patch Adams

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Jim Leach