A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.