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Civilization Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
- To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable…
- The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,…
- We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of…
- Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
- It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention…
- The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom…
- The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all…
- The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or…
- Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.
- Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life…
- If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
- Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
More Civilization Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce