Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies. — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe. — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her.” — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that… — Rose George Copy Share Image
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Can you truly understand what a nation is capable of, child of the Stillness? The entirety of Old Sanze, once it finally… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
“The art of the great historic civilizations never impress us as much as an Eskimo harpoon or a mask from the South… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline.… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“I was seized at once with a profound fascination, a burning thirst to learn, to immerse myself totally, to melt away, to… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
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