When humor goes there goes civilization.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first and deadly afterwards.

If history could teach us anything it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Classes struggle some classes triumph others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.