For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. T….

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy..

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman..

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but ….

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on ….

To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at it dispassionately, ask what happened durin….

Cars are the most central thing in America, in a lot of ways. They've probably influenced the way we live more than anything else, and yet every real….

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can….

To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevi….

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and….

The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern ….

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the mach….

I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction ….

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no mat….

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing..

I think it would be an excellent idea..

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious ret….

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind..

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All na….

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, ….

That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the m….