Civilization Quote by Herman Melville

“Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We…

— Roger Kimball

Without winners, there would be no civilization.

— Woody Hayes

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

— Calvin Coolidge

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

— Woody Hayes

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

— Anthony Gregory

Winning is good but is better when it becomes a means of hope and positive change in the lives of those who are deprived.

— Emmanuel Adebayor

Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear…

— Ferdinand Foch

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

“The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.”

— William Graham Sumner