All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
...there is much more to matter than modern science currently would like to acknowledge. By developing insights about the observer, we can describe matter in a new way.
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.
Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid ...
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't se...
Evangelical Christians need to notice..., that the Reformation said 'Scripture Alone' and not 'the Revelation of God in Christ Alone'. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you really have no content in the word 'Chris...
It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by the crisp borders, sharp corners, neat railings, and machine-polished textures that define the new Japanese landscape,...
Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.