But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs wi….

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril..

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by….

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt..

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises….

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way..

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization..

The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and the Reapers, and being in the driver's seat to end ….

The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and….

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization..

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations..

Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still li….

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power.

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization..

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up..

The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative….

Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative….

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to….

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization..

A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while mo….

Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass eac….