Civilization Quote by Will Durant

“War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history…

— Will Durant

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

— Robert Aumann

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.

— Karl Von Clausewitz

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is merely a continuation of politics,

— Carl von Clausewitz

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

— Gwynne Dyer

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

The absence of war is not peace.

— Harry S. Truman

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

— Rush Limbaugh

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

— Ursula K. Le Guin