“The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.”

“Amongst civilized nations revolts are rarely excited, except by such persons as have nothing to lose by them;”

“From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.”

This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation."

“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce”

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

The individual is today no longer primarily a citizen, but a party member.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the F hrer principle.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

"We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way"

"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself"

"Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts."

"Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people."

"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society."

"Civilization is the making of civil persons."

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."