Civilization Quote by Henry George

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

— Ayn Rand

“In the face of certain death, men will show great courage, make great sacrifices, show a selfless determination to complete an impossible task. But…

— Andreas Christensen

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in…

— Albert Camus

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

— Baruch Spinoza

“The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These plethoras…

— Victor Hugo

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

— Karl Popper

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

— Euripides

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil…

— Herodotus

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to…

— Herman Melville

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

— St. Jerome

There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're…

— Dan Hill

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne