Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
History is a conflict of two moral types - the predatory and the constructive - and these can be found in all… — Syed Hussein Alatas Copy Share Image
“Long time ago, many pre-human civilizations had developed so advanced into a level where most people today assume them simply as works… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“If you want to conquer civilizations, restructure their languages. Long time ago, even god used this strategy to rule over mankind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.” — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Isolationists believed that the ancient civilizations all developed independent of one another. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Egypt—all crossed a threshold into… — Robert Doherty Copy Share Image
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
“Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The availability of irrigation systems to water the land and produce grain and other food crops was the material foundation for these… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck 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
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner 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
“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 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
“I was seized at once with a profound fascination, a burning thirst to learn, to immerse myself totally, to melt away, to… — Ryszard Kapuściński 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
