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

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

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

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?

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

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

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 a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

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

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

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.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

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

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

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

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

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.

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

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

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.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

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

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.

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

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

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.

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.