#civil

Civilization is what makes you sick. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#makes #sick #you

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#civilized #humanists #longer #men #must

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilized #civilized nations #koran #laws #legislate

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilization #contradict #interpretations #needs #often

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#consider #correction #delinquent #divine #duty

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#civilization #exists #found #wherever

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#called #civility #demagoguery #elites #labels

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama