Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.
