You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
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