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Civilization Quotes by Will Durant
- Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
- A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,…
- [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
- In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
- Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
- The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees…
- The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
- Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.…
- The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is…
- Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the…
- Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
- Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
- Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,…
- Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization…
- The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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- 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