Civilization Quotes

2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose… — Arnold J. Toynbee
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great… — Samuel P. Huntington
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The… — Samuel P. Huntington
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon… — Lin Yutang
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other… — John C. Calhoun
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they… — Cordell Hull
As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its… — Kathleen Sebelius
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare… — Cheikh Anta Diop
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but… — Ariel Durant
Man, not the earth, makes civilization. — Ariel Durant
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and… — Sri Aurobindo
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It… — John Keegan
That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they… — Philip Reeve
What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all… — Timothy Findley
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a… — Julian Assange
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time… — Kate Millett
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. — Ernst Haeckel
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a… — Raoul Vaneigem
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's… — Seth Lloyd
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. — Niall Ferguson
The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos. — Niall Ferguson
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but… — Christian D. Larson

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