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It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the French do.
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.
Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.