Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength conviction and morality. Her action on December 1 1955 to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
In emerging democracies like Russia in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
Business labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
Every society all government and every kind of civil compact therefore is or ought to be calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
It is time for the world the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.
If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society here would be quite civilized.
Civilization is unbearable but it is less unbearable at the top.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values we believed than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.