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.
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
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.
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
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.
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.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
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.
I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way.
Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
