I think he's completely misdiagnosed the problem of the urban schools. His contention that they are deliberately starved of resources by a racist society is a wacky idea. It's not true.
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Christian civilization is the greatest that the world has ever known because it rests on a conception of life that makes life one unending progress toward higher things, with no limit to advancement or development.
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people. Only in totalitarian societies do governments talk and talk at their people and never listen.
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from the first dawn to the present day...
It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.
Immigrants, both documented and undocumented, are a sector of society that should not be ignored.
A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.
We will likely hold an international forum for representatives of business circles, civil society and government bodies in Moscow in September. It is our opinion that it is impossible to counter this evil effectively without the assistance of civil society. And we need the support of the business community to cut off international financial aid to terrorist organizations.
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
When a man meets his make, society begins.
An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.
Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies.
Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values, ... He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.
We're still not convinced there is a good reason for the government to withhold what is typically a public document. However, this new order is the correct legal way for the government to try to prevent the release of the report, as opposed to the unconstitutional effort to control the flow of information in a free society.
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
He's a model prisoner. He taught. He did this, he did that. He coached. He taught. He worked out. ... I think he's going to be a productive member of society.
The police is a very important institution for the democratization of Indonesian society. Unless the police is firmly put in front in charge of internal security, this country is going to go backwards.
All of our lives, the very fabric of our society, are so intertwined with science and technology that you can't even begin to fathom where we're going in the 21st century without an understanding of science.
What I say to the Chinese is that a free society is in your interest.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
The pornography industry spends more than 57 billion worldwide and sex outlets, like adult bookstores, outnumbering McDonald's restaurants on a scale of two-to-one in our society.
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil he is always self-made.
I know some of us wanted to address the situation a little bit more. But it's just one of many issues in hip-hop right now. It all starts somewhere else before it gets to the sheriff Bill Young. In light of the recent events, we have to look at society as a whole it has a lot to do with what happened. I believe the sheriff is just reacting to something that he really doesn't understand.
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
We have gathered here today to express our solidarity, our sympathy with the victims and their families and show our support for the open society,
It's a wonderful glimpse at something great that emerged from a difficult time in our society. For a great many of our visitors, they're walking in the door and getting their first look at something they didn't know anything about. It has been awe-inspiri
We are proposing to strengthen the criminal law in respect of possession of a limited category of extreme material featuring adults. The intention is to reduce the demand for such material and to send a clear message that it has no place in our society.
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.
He understands civic society, and he understands duty. And once he makes a decision, it just happens, because he empowers the staff to do it.
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.
I feel very deeply that the people's voice should be heard -- that a matter such as the definition of marriage is fundamental in our society, and that the citizens should have a right to be heard,
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.
Dining is the privilege of civilization.... The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
When China had a planned economy our material circumstances were not rich but our society was much more peaceful and stable. We didn't have the polarization between rich and poor we are seeing today.
Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Society changes every day, and every group brings a different flavor. We want to promote a dialogue, let the community leaders know we are here, that we care.