Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that if used for military purposes they can wipe out our entire civilization.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology yet most of us are alienated from science.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism a new path must be found a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Roman civilization had achieved within the bounds of its technology relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength conviction and morality. Her action on December 1 1955 to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

In emerging democracies like Russia in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Business labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Every society all government and every kind of civil compact therefore is or ought to be calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

It is time for the world the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.