Civilization Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Warfare cannot be humanized.

— Albert Einstein

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

— Emma Goldman

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

— Dirk Benedict

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.

— John McCain

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

— Albert Einstein

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots…

— Richard A. Falk

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

— Albert Einstein

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?

— Mairead Corrigan

We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.

— Mona Caird

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

— Mona Caird

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

— Gregory David Roberts