Revenge Based Civilization

“All civilization is based on revenge. Some may call it justice or laws, but knowing in some way if you mess with my stuff or with me I can mess with you and yours, have in the past few millennia kept us somewhat civilized and have stayed the hand of most sane people.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Take Any People

“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
--Thomas Sowell

Stupid Teachers

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.”
--Thomas Sowell

Have Their Say

“The First Amendment of the US Constitution holds the very important core principle that nobody should be silenced, and that everyone should have their say. That is the oxygen of our civilization. To restrict it is to commit slow suicide.”
--Pat Condell

Destroyed from Within

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
--Will Durant

A Civilization's Soul

“The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.”
--Will Durant

Barbarism and Civilization

“From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.”
--Will Durant

Wealth Injures

“The first direction in which wealth injures the civilization is a moral one. The object of the young and the ambitious is no longer fame, honour or service, but cash.”
--John Bagot Glubb

Nine Meals

“Civilization is only nine meals away from anarchy.”
--Lord Cameron

Civilization's Fate

“Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest.”
--Abraham Lincoln

Uncivilized

“Our shouting is louder than our actions, our swords are taller than us, this is our tragedy. In short, we wear the cape of civilization, but our souls live in the stone age.”
--Nizar Qabbani

Good Things

“Most of the good things civilization has achieved are the result of somebody's seeing, in his mind's eye, how to do something better, or make something better.”
--Cason J.Callaway