Partners from the Islamic world are of particular importance. Indeed, they have huge incentives to be involved, as the ongoing struggles are generally not clashes between civilizations. Rather, what we are seeing is more accurately a clash within a civilization: that of the Islamic world.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
