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

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

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

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

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

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

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

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

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

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

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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.

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

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

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

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

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

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

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.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

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

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.

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.

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.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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.

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.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.

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

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

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.

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

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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

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

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

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.

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.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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.

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.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.