Source: The Meaning of the City (1951), p. 13
“Men must be reminded that as civilization becomes more industrial and urban”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Individualism and Socialism (1933)
Context: Men must be reminded that as civilization becomes more industrial and urban, relationships become more impersonal, and that much of our sinning is done as members of groups.
Dennis Prager (1948) American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian
Source: 2010s, Why the Left Hates America (2015)
“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 101)
“Wars worse than civil.”
Bella...plus quam civilia.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book I, line 1 (tr. Christopher Marlowe).
Pharsalia
“There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war.”
Anselme Bellegarrigue book Anarchist Manifesto
Oui, l'anarchie c'est l'ordre; car, le gouvernement c'est la guerre civile.
Bellegarrigue is often credited with first using the slogan "Anarchy is order, government is civil war" in 1848; it may have been derived from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's expression, in What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (1840): "As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy."
Anarchist Manifesto (1850)
“Confrontation is the road to war, destruction and end of civilization.”
Yevgeniy Chazov (1929) Russian physician
Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech (1985)
Context: Confrontation is the road to war, destruction and end of civilization. Even today it deprives the world's peoples of hundreds of millions of dollars which are badly needed for solving social problems, combating hunger and diseases.
Cooperation is the road to increased well-being of peoples and flourishing life. Medicine knows many examples when joint efforts to nations and scientists contributed to successful combat against diseases such, for example, as smallpox.
