Abstract Quote by Carroll Quigley

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're…

— Anonymous

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

— Jacques Ellul

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the…

— Roger Scruton

“Civilization is complex. It involves the existence of human communities characterized by political and social organization; dominating and utilizing natural forces; adapting themselves to…

— Frank L. DeSilva

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

— Thomas Carlyle

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight,…

— Paul Goodman

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

— Marilyn Ferguson

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Religions, creeds, drama, poetry, games, folklore, folk tales, mythology, moral and aesthetic codes' elements of the political and juridical life affirming a personality's value…

— Alija Izetbegović

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples…

— Sigmund Freud