Along with pornography, Lionel considers prison one of the two reliable pillars of civilization.
The idea that towers are the pillars of civilization, which is the syllogism he seems to be driving toward, is pretty inspiring for those who live and work in tall buildings.
In prose that bore the strong stamp of Michael Gerson, Mr. Bush's born-again chief speechwriter, the president said families, schools and religious institutions were the "unseen pillars of civilization," and then vowed to defend them.
Dispensaries opened, weed was openly sold, and the pillars of civilization did not crumble.
Now, more than a decade later, Mr. Wilder, a history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a new book, "Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities," which argues provocatively that the nation's early colleges, alongside church and state, were "the third pillar of a civilization based on bondage".
He made it clear he had lost faith in Europe as secularism and arriving Muslim immigrants had eroded traditional Christian values as the founding pillar of our civilization.
The hand-written treatise outlined the "five pillars of American civilization": 1) quality, 2) technological advance, 3) entrepreneurial free enterprise, 4) principles of American civilization, and 5) psychological strength.
History shows that Spain is a great nation, one of the pillars of Western civilization, and it will rise to the challenge and beat the odds.
The lawsuit had the virtues of pointing up the Immense psychic gap between those two pillars of bourgeois civilization, the artist and the corporation, and of illuminating some of the assumptions that continually push commercial television toward blandness.
At the turn of the millennium all the pillars of our civilization come to an agreement that a new approach towards the habits considering the lifestyle should be needed with a special emphasis on energy, to have a greener start for the future.
