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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite. — Adam Nicolson

War is a specific product of civilization. — Lewis Mumford

The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again. — Kiran Desai

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. — Robert Aumann

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Okakura Kakuzo

According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace. — Pat Conroy

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world. — Dan Quayle

You can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way — Will Rogers

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. — Victor Hugo

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait. — Ruth Benedict

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. — Joseph Rotblat

Air power may either end war or end civilization. — Winston Churchill

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. — George Orwell

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter. — Anthony H. Cordesman

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization. — Winston Churchill

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. — Abraham Lincoln

War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and thoughts of revenge. — David Gemmell

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen

Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose. — Ian C. Esslemont

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. — Paulette Jiles

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. — Omar N. Bradley

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst. — Travis Luedke

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. — John Boyd Orr

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. — Anthony Gregory

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

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195 — Robert Harris

I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. — Douglas MacArthur

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace. — Criss Jami

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. — James A. Michener