The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging ri...
Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.
When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.
A tear at the right moment is better than a misplaced smile.
When both parties are right, it's a bad day for "right."
The brief story of the supper at Emmaus carries within it a number of core principles of the Christian life as Luke understands it. First, the idea that one comes to know Christ through acts of generosity to other human beings. It is because of their...
Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.
Amanda knew she was lucky to have a friend like Laura, somebody who was always there to back her up. It made it easier to be brave, easier to do the right thing.
Marriage is a commitment to do the right thing beyond the emotion of feeling loved
