The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
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.
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
