Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Le citoyen doit-il un seul instant, dans quelque mesure que ce soit, abandonner sa conscience au législateur ? (LA DÉSOBÉISSANCE CIVILE)
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
