Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: s...
To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bru...
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now k...
[first title card] Title card: Sierra Leone, 1999 Title card: Civil war rages for control of the diamond fields. Title card: Thousands have died and millions have become refugees. Title card: None of whom has ever seen a diamond.
Commander Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs? Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization. Commander Shears: That's just my point; here, there is no civilization. Colonel Nich...
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer ...
All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness s...
Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and...
Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.
