Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space...
When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or w...
Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the ...
It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-...
Approaching the Start of Civil Exams Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar approaching the start of civil exams, my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion with books on syntax and poetic style. All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains an...
Constance Harraway: [giving an anti-death penalty speech] When you kill someone, you rob their family - not just of a loved one, but of their humanity. You harden their hearts with hate, you take away their capacity for civilized dispassion, you cond...
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.
