I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
