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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
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.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
You either have a civil society or you don't.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
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.
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.
