Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too..

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people..

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer -….

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization..

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history..

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else..

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fail….

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring..

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward..

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization..

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than ….

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces tog….

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civiliz….

Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy..

As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been i….

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled..

The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great ….

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Whe….

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among m….

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God….

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight..