“I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.” PeopleWould BeAblePastAsksRichForgivingCivilizedFulfillingForgive Me Author:Boris Yeltsin
“The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.” WorldPastActivityCivilizedResidents Book:Running Wild Source: Running Wild
“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.” PastCultureSpiritualityTermPowerfulRichDivineEthicsFlowDepthTensionMaterialismMysticismCivilizedProgressiveFormulasFraudScience And ReligionModernismEthosCivilized SocietyHocus Pocus Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.” ThinkingKnowsSaidWarPastTermStepsBoysCallingGayCivil WarCivilizedImperfectSixtyPoliteStrifeRiotMarbleWaitressBaltimoreWinceScott FitzgeraldDuring The Civil War Author:Laura Lippman
“We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.” ThinkingNeedsShouldIdeasEnoughHelpingSeemsGovernmentPastCoursesToo MuchCivilizationAgreeDebateCivilizedDisagreeStatesmenGood FaithPettinessAgree To Disagree Author:Daphne Guinness