This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial." From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.
In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and pa...
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator d...
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
