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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.
Mark Skousen
Success
Failure
World
Build
Pay
Defeat
Society
State
Complete
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Totally
Civilized
Civilized Society
Civilized World
Higher
Price
Voluntary
Failing
Greater
Ultimate
Represents
Tax
While
Taxation
Planned
Level
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud
Men
Society
Civilized
Civilized Society
Through
Hostility
Primary
Towards
Another
Perpetually
Disintegration
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
Greg Boyle
Society
Possible
Civilized
Civilized Society
Redemption
Measure
Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
Bernie Sanders
Socialism
People
Pay
Society
Corporations
Must
Civilized
Civilized Society
Share
Fair
Fair Share
Democratic
Taxes
Means
Largest
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
Robert Reich
Society
Civilized
Civilized Society
Hallmark
Bullies
Up
Standing
Standing Up
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
Society
Eccentricity
Civilized
Civilized Society
Point
Which
Doubtful
Sanity
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.
Henry Grunwald
Perspective
Reputation
Society
Defense
Libel
Resort
Weapons
Cases
Civilized
Civilized Society
Look
Most
Least
Replaced
After
Them
Actions
Ornament
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
Antonin Scalia
Death
World
Criticism
Society
Penalty
Some
Somehow
Civilized
Civilized Society
Parts
Unworthy
Death Penalty
Exists
America
Sanctimonious
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.
Bill Kristol
Law
Society
Our
Rule
Way
Rule Of Law
Out
Possible
Civilized
Civilized Society
Crucial
Go
Uphold
Should
Strengthen
Extent
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.
Geoffrey Fisher
God
Alone
Man
Responsibility
Society
Ought
Crimes
Civilized
Civilized Society
Most
Likely
Ultimate
Sins
Treated
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.
Greg Boyle
Heart
Victim
Society
Ability
Civilized
Civilized Society
Highest
Vengeance
Hallmark
Hold
Which
Compassionate
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
Ingrid Newkirk
Death
Best
Justice
Fight
Ending
Nothing
Society
Prolonged
Running
Only
Civilized
Civilized Society
Never
Demand
Knowing
Call
Forced
Were
Bulls
End
Up
Die
Endure
Themselves
Us
Painful
Why
Defend
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
Jill Lepore
Prosperity
Pay
Society
Wealthy
More
Civilized
Civilized Society
Because
Modernity
Taxes
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark Skousen
Society
Sign
Triumph
Civilized
Civilized Society
Over
Force
Persuasion
We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
Matt Mead
Society
Ways
We Cannot
Civilized
Civilized Society
Terrorists
Going
Cannot
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
Mike Schmidt
Today
Every
Society
Virtually
Civilized
Civilized Society
Sacred
Dead
Holds
Bury
Right
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.
Nicholas Meyer
Good
People
Society
Books
Libraries
Someone
Only
Civilized
Civilized Society
Like
Schools
Reads
Exist
Them
Use
Twin
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.
Walter Gropius
Life
Design
Society
Everyone
Our
Guiding
Neither
Civilized
Civilized Society
Part
Simply
Stuff
Principle
Material
Affair
Integral
Integral Part
Nor
Intellectual
Necessary
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