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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It’s happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.