All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.” — Kane Freeman Copy Share Image
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe. — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about… — Manmohan Singh 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
“He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her.” — Lisa Kessler 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
“How, after all, are we so sure there aren't invisible civilizations floating by on every mote?” — Richard Farr 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
Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline.… — Carrie Gress 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
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
“Can you truly understand what a nation is capable of, child of the Stillness? The entirety of Old Sanze, once it finally… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant 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
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
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
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson 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
“Fawcett could never take the final leap of a modern anthropologist and accept that complex civilizations were capable of springing up independently… — David Grann Copy Share Image
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
