Civilizations Quotes

168 Civilizations quotes by 142 unique authors

The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of… — G. H. Hardy
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal… — Philippe Starck
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have… — Adolf Hitler
Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes… — George Galloway
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.… — Toni Morrison
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. — L. Ron Hubbard
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. — Charles Lindbergh
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. — Allan Bloom
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up… — Huston Smith
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations… — Huston Smith
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung… — Louis Sullivan
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand… — Naguib Mahfouz
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal.… — Phylicia Rashad
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of… — Frederick Lenz
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. — Vicente Fox
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only… — Margaret Mead
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do… — Frank Herbert
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate,… — Vaclav Smil
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… — James Henry Breasted

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