CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
