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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
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
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
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
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
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