Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Civilization, and syphilization, have advanced together.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.
Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
