Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.
Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, ...
I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what s...
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.
When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try...
