One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.
Secret RendezvousCreativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of CivilizationTo have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas SowellMorals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaMy first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
Martin SheenI'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
Jim Lehrer