America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all…

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant.…

— Harold Rosenberg

It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and freedom's defender.…

— George W. Bush

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

— Carl Jung

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

— Julian Assange

“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most…

— Eckhart Tolle

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

— Judith Ellen Foster

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz