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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
— Aneurin Bevan
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
— James F. Cooper
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
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
— Ashley Montagu
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
— Sigmund Freud
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
— George Bernard Shaw
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
— Oscar Wilde
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
— Andy Hargreaves
Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.
— Gil A. Waters
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
— Judith Martin
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
— Robert Frost
I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society
— Richard Ramirez
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
— Robert E. Howard
I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.
— Philippa Ballantine
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
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
— Mike Schmidt
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
— Julian Assange
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
— Samuel Johnson
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
— Muhammad Yunus
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.
— Jed Rubenfeld
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
— J. Maarten Troost
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.
— Joan Ganz Cooney
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
— Henry George
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
— Philip Pullman
Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!
— John Ratcliffe
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana