His springs from bitterness and shame over the weakness of Islam's once glorious and militarily strong civilization, and a desire to make America taste that bitterness.
In a book of 1880, for example, he writes that, "Our weak, unmanly social concepts of good and evil and their tremendous ascendancy over body and soul have finally weakened all bodies and souls and snapped the self-reliant, independent, unprejudiced men, the pillars of a strong civilization" (D 163).
Make allies with stronger civilizations.
New Age-style sacred travel, or metaphysical touring, is a growing branch of tourism, particularly in countries like Egypt with strong ancient-civilization pedigrees.
Below its hilarity, so wild that it hurts, Catch-22 is the strongest repudiation of our civilization, in fiction, to come out of World War II.
I had begun to develop a strong interest in Greek civilization back in middle school days.
All of these groups had in common a well-developed urban civilization with a strong ideology of sacred kingship.
Senghor, a poet and philosopher who sought some synthesis between an authentic African identity and French civilization, built a strong political position on partnership with the leaders of the Mourides (Murīdiyyah) and other socially conservative Muslim orders, but he was increasingly driven toward claiming political independence.
Roger Travis, associate professor of classics at the University of Connecticut, compared the Master Chief to the epic hero Aeneas, in that both superhuman characters save a civilization by defeating strong enemies in a martial setting.
Many Europeans feel that what makes our Western civilization unique is our strong respect for basic human rights, including the right to a fair trial, no matter who you are or what horrendous deeds you have done.
