“The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.” WarStatesMilitaryConsequenceDirectInternalsCivilizedDecayAssaultFoeExhaustionDownfall Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough.” PeopleStatesEnoughLife IsLostSituationLordDemocracyColdTerribleCivilizationArmyPunishmentInnocentCivilizedAlasGiverChaoticAssassinationCapital PunishmentLebanon Author:Shimon Peres
“One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.” YearsStatesViewsPositionOrganizationPoint Of ViewDecadesCivilizedNegotiationAdministrativeChechnya Author:Akhmad Kadyrov
“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.” YearsTwoWarStatesAbleChristianNationsStruggleModernEuropeDestructionArmyAncientDenyBrokeRanTortureAgencyCivilizedFearfulImmenseAsiaUtilityBattlefieldsDoubtfulGreat WarCannibalismRuthlessnessModern War Author:Winston Churchill
“Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.” StatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesObjectsProducePopulationLuxuryWealthyCivilizedUnited States Of America Book:Manual of political economy Source: Manual of political economy
“Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.” WorldCountryStatesNationsDifficultGenerationsCircumstancesPromiseDignityTasksDemocraticIraqComplicatedPursueCivilizedProgressiveOppressedRebuildingDifficult Circumstances Author:Jalal Talabani