“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 101)
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“Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.”
Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 14
On Coalition Government (1945)
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”
No. 29. (Rica writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
“The opposite of war isn't peace… It's creation!”
Rent (1996)
Source: 2010s, Why the Left Hates America (2015)
“Sometimes the cause of civilization is best served by a hard stare into the soul of its opposite.”
Source: The Botany of Desire (2001), Chapter 1, “Desire: Sweetness / Plant: The Apple” (p. 41)