The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.