Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
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