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
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason.” — Abbott Lawrence Lowell Copy Share Image
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon,… — Pat Buchanan 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
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
“Empires collapse, Civilizations disappear, Health deteriorates And bodies turn to ash, But life will always go on” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.” — Kane Freeman 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
We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Kenyataannya memang hubungan antarperadaban, antaragama ini tidak boleh taken for granted. Ini bisa menjadi sumber masalah yang fundamental dan permanen, we have… — SBYudhoyono Copy Share Image
I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
'The Last Pictures' is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we've… — Trevor Paglen 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
“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
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
“The art of the great historic civilizations never impress us as much as an Eskimo harpoon or a mask from the South… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen 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
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
“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies. — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant 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
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens. — Gail Bradbrook 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
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
