The growth of knowledge and the growth of civilization are the same only if we interpret knowledge to include all the human adaptations to environment.
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
The striking differences between the long-term histories of peoples of the different continents have been due not to innate differences in the peoples themselves but to differences in their environments.
