All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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.
