“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.” — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles;… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and at… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss."… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
“And at last Man raised on high the final glory of his civilization, the towering edifice of the ultimate city. Softly beneath… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful… — William Mulvihill Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good. — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of… — Charles Baudelaire 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
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its… — Lev Artsimovich Copy Share Image
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
