Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
