Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.