The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

It is time for the world the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

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

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.

If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society here would be quite civilized.

Civilization is unbearable but it is less unbearable at the top.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.