Kalau Islam berarti menyerahkan diri, maka kita semua hidup dan mati dalam Islam - Goethe
Kalau dalam bidang keagamaan sendiri terdapat keragaman dalam kesatuan, maka dalam kebudayaan Islam sudah semestinya pula terdapat keragaman - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)
Kebudayaan mempunyai sifat-sifat khusus, nasional, sederhana, dan timbul dengan sendirinya - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
