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Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
Robert Reich / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
Garry Wills / Author
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Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
Greg Boyle / Priest
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The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark Skousen / Economist
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Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
J. Maarten Troost / Writer
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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
Tom Mcclintock / U.s. Representative
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We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
Matt Mead /
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost / Poet
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Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
Mike Schmidt / Hall Of Fame Inductee
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If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
Julian Assange / Journalist
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf / Imam
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
Alfred North Whitehead / Mathematician
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
James Fenimore Cooper /
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I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.
Nawaz Sharif /
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We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Philip Pullman / Film Writer
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud / Neurologist
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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.
Bill Kristol /
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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
Jill Lepore / Professor
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There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
George Osborne / British Politician
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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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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.
Rush Limbaugh / Talk Show Host
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Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
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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.
Nicholas Meyer / Screenwriter
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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.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
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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.
Greg Boyle / Priest
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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.
John Delaney /
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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.
Walter Gropius / Architect
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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.
Henry Grunwald /
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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.
Vladimir Putin / President Of Russia
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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.
Nancy Pearcey / Author
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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.
Sharyl Attkisson /
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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.
Mark Skousen / Economist
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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.
Ingrid Newkirk / Activist
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