War is one of the constants of history, and it has not…

“War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history…

— Will Durant

“Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its part, music…

— Thomas Mann

“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 Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization…

— Will Durant

“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved…

— Will Durant

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully…

— Carl Sagan

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

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone…

— Kevin Spacey

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most…

— Eckhart Tolle

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

— Judith Ellen Foster

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz