Sentence examples for values of civilisation from inspiring English sources

They are quite literally defending the values of civilisation from those who have abandoned them.

This is a catastrophic failure of imagination and a signal absence of a sense of the true values of civilisation.

It turns out that we didn't believe truly in the values of civilisation either, or else we would have found a wiser way to win.

Just like the text by Itard on which it is based, Truffaut's film expresses both the romanticism of Victor's impassioned longing for the woods and the moon, and also the clinical compassion with which his stiff-necked, reserved teacher offers him the values of civilisation.

The words of Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence, who notoriously dismissed it as "stuff happens" carry greater weight, but the attorney-general called the looting, which the American marines in Baghdad had done nothing to prevent, "an assault on the values of civilisation...US law enforcement...will not rest until the stolen Iraqi artefacts are returned to their rightful place".

9/11 was an attack not just on the United States, but on all those who shared the best values of civilisation.

To represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world.

In Tristes Tropiques he expressed a deep distaste for the values of contemporary civilisation, and for the solipsism of modern philosophy.

Moreover, after all that has happened in the past six months, central Europeans can no longer look up to old countries representing the moral values of western civilisation.

After all, there is a strong argument that the values of western civilisation are not based on Christianity at all, but on the earlier thinking of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus - and even Confucius.

A staunch proponent of Negritude, or Blackness, Bebey wrote poetry, novels and journalism, all of which aimed to promote the common values of Black civilisation; this remarkable record forms part of that aim.