If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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 high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.