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Civilization Quotes by James Henry Breasted
- There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for…
- But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad…
- To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner…
- By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture…
- In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe…
- There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on…
- It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within…
More Civilization Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce