Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they… — L. Ron Hubbard 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
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common… — Jack McDevitt 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
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
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being… — Johan Rockstrom 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
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
That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just… — Karyn Kusama 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence—from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke 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
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
“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
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
“Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
India and Vietnam are old civilizations. We have ancient cultural and spiritual connections. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates. — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
“Yes, but he faces a human mage with great power and no idea what he’s doing,” I boasted. “That has sunk islands,… — Terry Mancour Copy Share Image
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
