“ The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you Christopher Hitchens
“ The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean somethi… Jodi Picoult
“ In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. Paul Harris
“ The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops. Alfred Nobel
“ Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is an… Anthony Marais
“ From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers were said. The Bible was my first history, the Jews were the first people, a… Robert G. Ingersoll
“ We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us b… Alan W. Watts
“ Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer th… G.K. Chesterton
“ Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of beliefs. Harry G. Frankfurt
“ All scornful descriptions of American landscapes with ruined tenements, automobile dumps, polluted rivers, jerry-built ranch houses, abandoned miniature golf links, cinder deserts, ugly hoardings, uns… John Cheever
“ Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this… Iain Pears
“ No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. Lawrence Clark Powell
“ In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the… Michelle Malkin
“ We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed r… Hilaire Belloc
