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.
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.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in 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.
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.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
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.