The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and the earth. It will necessitate living as if our very breath is a gift and every person ...
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the U...
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on h...
Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the horrible. In the name of philanthropy, imbecile crimin...
Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of a "civil right," it means...
If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of...
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.
