Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.