Civilizations Quotes
168 quotes by 146 authors
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the…
— Allan Bloom
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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
— Eli Broad
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
— Nicolas Cage
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The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
— John Henrik Clarke
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There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something…
— Seth Shostak
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;…
— Edward Gargan
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have…
— Lewis Mumford
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical…
— Freeman Dyson
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.…
— Louis Kronenberger
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What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker.…
— John W. Gardner
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But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these…
— Amartya Sen
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When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully…
— George W. Bush
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
— Toni Morrison
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Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the…
— Jacques Ellul
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming,…
— John Ralston Saul
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Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
— Maurice Strong
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with…
— Arthur Koestler
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