Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Gingrich - primary mission Advocate of civilization Definer of civilization Teacher of the Rules of Civilization... Leader (Possibly) of the civilizing forces... — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in… — Louis Stanley Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
