K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere..

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit….

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct..

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way..

Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them, ….

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

Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb a….

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption..

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today..

The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not f….

It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-chan….

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery..

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in c….

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization..

Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is a….

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is c….

Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprisi….

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages..

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanical….

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to manki….

The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is s….