If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
