“ Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The… Winston S. Churchill
“ Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes. Abhijit Naskar
“ What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity! Abhijit Naskar
“ Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them. Abhijit Naskar
“ Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love. Abhijit Naskar
“ Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several individuals, the planned cooperation of many thousands, civi… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the m… Holly Estil Cunningham
“ Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling… Ronald Wright
“ The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could li… Will Herberg
“ Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender. Henry David Thoreau
“ A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it… Gustave Le Bon
“ The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle. Ludwig von Mises
“ It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. M.L. Stedman
“ By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western Christian civilisation': France, imperial Germany, the Habsburg… Neal Ascherson
“ A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no r… Will Durant
“ , civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is a means of ensuring order and structure; it is… Peter Jelen
“ Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a… Will Durant
“ There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition a… Will Durant
