#civil

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#between #civilization #coat #fragile #hideously

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#civilization #creates #educates #inevitably #interest

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly. ↗

— Dave Sim

#central #civilization #defending #destructive #feminists

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#civilisation #effect #escape #hardly #ignorance

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#better #civilians #including #innocent #innocent civilians

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#coherent #definite #heterogeneity #homogeneity #incoherent

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cannot #civil #common #conceived #consent

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#advantageous #both #civilized #come #condition

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#art #border #civilization #course #flowers