Age Quote by Steven Erikson

Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a…

— Steven Erikson

“National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to…

— Karl Marx

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

— Ko Wen-je

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also…

— Karl Marx

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more…

— Thomas Paine

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

— Herbert Read

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

— David K. Shipler

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of…

— Jack Donovan

“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

— Ovid

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

— John F. Kennedy