Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
“Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason.” — Abbott Lawrence Lowell Copy Share Image
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“How, after all, are we so sure there aren't invisible civilizations floating by on every mote?” — Richard Farr Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
“Empires collapse, Civilizations disappear, Health deteriorates And bodies turn to ash, But life will always go on” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal?… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
'The Last Pictures' is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we've… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from… — John Bierce Copy Share Image
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.” — Kane Freeman Copy Share Image
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“But old families are like civilizations. One day they just wither and die.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
