We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civ….

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better….

I have wished you something None of the others would..

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism..

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere..

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning..

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization..

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder..

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience..

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast..

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be b….

Alone we are savages, together we are civilization.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us..

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always b….

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.….

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today..

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another..

Without fathers you would have no civilization..

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were p….

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civiliza….