Civilised Quote by Charles Darwin

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the…

— Gao Xingjian

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage…

— Charles Darwin

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

— Claude McKay

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

— Rod Serling

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them…

— Benito Mussolini

Only a more Savage Nation can survive.

— Michael Savage

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

— Ellen Glasgow

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

— Adolf Hitler

The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend…

— Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

— Mahatma Gandhi