Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Civilization, and syphilization, have advanced together.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.
Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. —
My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.
