Civilization Quote by Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to…

— Allan Bloom

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans…

— Haile Selassie

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like…

— Margaret Atwood

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do,…

— Sting

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants…

— John Piper

“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries…

— Toni Morrison

Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but…

— James A. Forbes

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They…

— Thor Heyerdahl

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it…

— Frank Herbert

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always…

— Phylicia Rashad

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to…

— Frank Herbert