The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

A little less complaint and whining and a little more dogged work and manly striving would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

Children I grant should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men or women it is but a civil term for weakness.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization but this is not true. Slavery still exists but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world however imperfect that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

The wedding took place in Vermont where they have legalized gay civil unions and I married a woman.

War is not civilized.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.