The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.
Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
La prévoyance commence lorsque nous acceptons que nous sommes maintenant arrivés à créés une civilisation du risque.
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, , September 14, 1958)
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth century, and the distinguished French lawyer Bartholomew Chassenée rose to fame as an advocate for animals. His work is commemora...
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.
