I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: ...
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own...
If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families a...
As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are alway...
There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
Orang mempelajari Islam untuk mengetahui apa sebenarnya Islam itu.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
