The history of our civilization has been one of…

“Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure…

— Will Durant

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Machines taking over jobs - it's the history of civilization. Replacing farm animals, old forms of manual labor, now taking over small, menial aspects…

— Garry Kasparov

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that…

— Tom Stoppard

“On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are being wiped…

— Doug Ten Rose

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

— H. G. Wells

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy,…

— Will Durant

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

— Emmanuel Macron

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization…

— Ray Bradbury

“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to…

— John Acquaviva

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

— Dalai Lama

“For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.”

— Steven Pinker

“Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts – between individuals in economic…

— Will Durant