Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birt….

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taki….

Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole commu….

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle..

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by….

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family..

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death.

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough..

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only….

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge..

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization..

It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of g….

When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now ….

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read..

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the….

There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim ….

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'.

People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they'….

The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we se….

Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain gre….

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization..