The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous. Heroes in ancient times were the link between men and perfect beings, gods. Her...
Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works of Virginia Woolf remain essential reading. More than fifty years since her death, accounts of her life still set the pace for modern ...
The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.
Inequality was the price of civilization.
the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin
Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second civil war had threatened to split the nation into new feuding armies, and the inequities of industrial life had brutalized too m...
[first lines] Narrator: 1879 - the Civil War is over, and the resulting economic explosion spurs the great migration west. Farmers, ranchers, prospectors, killers, and thieves seek their fortune. Cattle growers turn cow towns into armed camps, with m...
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Reading is an activity of civilized beings.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
I certainly support civil unions.
