Civilization Quote by Christian Lous Lange

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

— Michelle Bachelet

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

— Freya Stark

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

— Richard Matheson

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific…

— William Kittredge

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

— Stephen Hawking

It is the business of future to be dangerous… The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a…

— Robert Higgs

There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim…

— Howard Zinn

Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear…

— Joe Sestak

Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we…

— Al Gore