Sentence examples for civilization i from inspiring English sources

"Why is it, when someone starts talking about civilization, I hear the sound of machine guns?" Fay asks.

Now, once you've rebuilt civilization I can do the investment banking".

No human being in Western civilization, I contend, would make such an asinine retort.

"I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve," he laments.

The unitive eye with which all children are born was never taken away from me by the frauds of civilization; I always did know that one is all and all is one".

It had been a long, hot day, and it didn't dawn on me that I was being asked to speak on behalf of Western civilization— I think I grunted in response.

In Civilization: Is the West History?

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Its slogan was "For Those Whose Stake in This Industrial Civilization Is Greatest".

In Civilization: Is the West History?, Niall Ferguson clocked up the air miles with his theory of how the west came to dominate global politics and economics.

As for my supposed lack of discussion of "the conflict of civilizations," I can only marvel at Mann's misunderstanding.