I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
Hideki Tojo

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
Hideki Tojo

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
E. M. Forster

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Rutherford B. Hayes

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Ibrahim Babangida

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney

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

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Ludwig von Mises

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Ludwig von Mises

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Serj Tankian

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.
Margaret Mitchell