The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
Civilization can never be sustainable.
Societies are not sustainable without institutions.