“Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power… — Arnold J. Toynbee 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
“We start by going back 2,000 years. There were successful civilizations in Rome, China and later in western Europe. These leading countries… — Edward A. Hudson 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
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
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
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
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
It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those… — David Horowitz 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
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“in marked contrast to other high civilizations of the time, this religion—centering on the worship of the Goddess—seems to have both reflected… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop… — Allan Bloom 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
