Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of chang...
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, develo...
China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively...
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life tod...
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fin...
Inequality was the price of civilization.
the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin
Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Reading is an activity of civilized beings.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
