Quotes About Civilised Society

#1. A girl who never got tired of her favorite movies," he said softly. "Who saved dresses like ticket stubs. Who could get high on the weather ... - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#2. In civilised society law is the chimney through which all that smoke discharges itself that used to circulate through the whole house, - Author: Walter Scott

#3. This law of capitalistic society would sound absurd to savages, or even civilised colonists. It calls to mind the boundless reproduction of animals individually weak and constantly hunted down.24 - Author: Karl Marx

#4. We were never perfect. There's no such thing as perfect. But it's not to late for us. We can still be good. - Author: Pittacus Lore

#5. I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule. - Author: Philippa Ballantine

#6. Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect. - Author: Alexander Skarsgard

#7. Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle. - Author: Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#8. It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#9. As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish. - Author: Justin Welby

#10. We are never defeated unless we give up on God. - Author: Ronald Reagan

#11. If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive. - Author: Teresa Of Avila

#12. He quickly pulled back and shook out his mane, in what he hoped was a very dignified manner. Yes, he was a horse, but he was still a man. Except anatomically. And he would be treated accordingly, with the utmost respect. - Author: Cynthia Hand

#13. I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you. Right now I am working on my career and trying to be genuine to my work. If you respect what you have got, God will give you what you need. - Author: Katrina Kaif

#14. Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. - Author: Julian Baggini

#15. This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. - Author: Samuel Smiles

#16. I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again! - Author: Jules Verne

#17. I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support. - Author: George Brandis

#18. The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings. - Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#19. Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs. - Author: Jeff Lindsay

#20. The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. - Author: Roy Jenkins

#21. Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more civilised than it is right now. - Author: Peter Ellyard

#22. Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men - Author: Priyavrat Thareja

#23. It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi