While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
[first lines] title card: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners
I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.
