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“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”

Liberty Society Crazy Mad Civilized Sanity Tolerate Doubtful Eccentricity Civilized Society Civilised Society

Author:Robert Frost

“Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.”

Men May Ends Use Individual Knowledge Society Achieve Particular Civilization Members Profit Pursue Civilized Civilized Society

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.”

Inspirational Humans Has Beens Humanity Society Victim Thrive Civilized Civilized Society

Book:Essays, lectures, addresses

Source: Essays, lectures, addresses

“To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.”

Life Society Creatures Abuse Cruelty Civilized Reverence Cardinals Civilized Society Reverence For Life Animal Abuse

Author:Jon Evans

“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society”

Political Pay Society Taxes Civilized Cooperation Citizenship Civilized Society Paying Taxes Property Taxes

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.”

Children Society Mark Civilized Cherish Civilized Society

Author:Joan Ganz Cooney

“Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.”

Opinion Society Mankind Depends Civilized Owing Civilized Society

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals