America is the only civilization in history which…

“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”

— Georges Clemenceau

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization…

— C. S. Lewis

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant.…

— Harold Rosenberg

“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.”

— Albert Jay Nock

“America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.”

— Walter A. McDougall

“In spite of the land's natural drawbacks, they turned Sumer into a veritable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably the first high…

— Samuel Noah Kramer

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing,…

— Pat Roberts

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held…

— Felix Frankfurter

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of…

— Narendra Modi

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…

— Jacob Burckhardt

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

— Orson F. Whitney

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports…

— Anonymous