Civilization Quote by Iris Chang

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

— Anonymous

“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage…

— James Connolly

“themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ……

— Doris Lessing

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

— Philip Sidney

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

— Gilbert Parker

“Humans are by nature self-centered. It doesn’t matter how civilized or primitive they are. If they want something, they’ll find a way to get…

— Ednah Walters

“In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere of Western…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception”

— Steven Pinker

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

— Michael Meade

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche