In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ , ALA interview 2011]
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
