Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.
If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.
For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!
unknown: Is that a man? Jack Ridley: You damn right it is.
