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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.