Civilizations Quotes
168 Civilizations quotes by 142 unique authors
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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
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The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.
— Niall Ferguson
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The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the…
— Joseph McCabe
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Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
— Will Durant
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It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far…
— Charles A. Murray
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Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do…
— Enrico Fermi
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The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without…
— Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
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Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have…
— Unknown Author
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AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and…
— Sarah Polley
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Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
— Stefan Halper
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at…
— Martin Jacques
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
— Carlisle Floyd
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Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these…
— John C. Wright
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Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture…
— Peter J. Carroll
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Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
— Ron Suskind
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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged…
— Laurie Lee
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In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
— Michel Foucault
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If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society;…
— Russell Kirk
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The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land…
— Frederick Seitz
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Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.
— Julian Jaynes
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That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that…
— Randy Neugebauer
Who Wrote These Civilizations Quotes
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