Sentence examples for values of civilization from inspiring English sources

Mr. John Bolt Culbertson's speeches were untainted by any regard for the values of civilization.

One may ask how, if man is born "evil" (by which Xunzi really meant uncivilized), it is possible for him to create the higher values of civilization.

The excellent Greta Gerwig plays Violet, leader of a group of young women who take it upon themselves to counsel the unhappy, reform the male gender and preserve the values of civilization.

The growing sadness and pessimism in Saint-Exupéry's view of man appears in Citadelle (1948; The Wisdom of the Sands), a posthumous volume of reflections that show Saint-Exupéry's persistent belief that man's only lasting reason for living is as repository of the values of civilization.

His watchword, "everyone must be mixed in their own way" is as central to Négritude as the defense and illustration of the values of civilization of the black world.

Nevertheless, it can be said that Césaire and Damas have put more emphasis on the dimension of poetic revolt while Senghor has insisted more on articulating Négritude as a philosophical content, as "the sum total of the values of civilization of the Black World", thus implying that it is an ontology, an aesthetics, an epistemology, or a politics.

No, being French today is to believe in the true value of civilization.

Today, after the tragic events in Paris, humanity is faced with the same value of civilization as opposed to decivilizing violence.

He objected to the belief that literature preserved the highest values of our civilization, but also to the opposed idea that it was deeply complicit with the worst.

It may then be forced to play a greater role in defending and promoting the liberal, pluralist beliefs and values of Western civilization.

The sustaining values of Western civilization have been sublimated products of decadence in that the ascetic ideal endorses existence as pain and suffering.