Civilization Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation.

— Jonathan Larson

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an…

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

— Will Durant

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

— McGeorge Bundy

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.

— Raymond Gram Swing

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

— Robert Aumann

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

— Daisaku Ikeda

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz