Golda Meir: Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.
Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.
