Civilizations Quotes

168 Civilizations quotes by 142 unique authors

The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of… — James Truslow Adams
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. — Andrew Sarris
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead
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
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs… — Don Berliner
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets,… — Patrick Stewart
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were… — Thor Heyerdahl
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the… — Ezra Taft Benson
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had… — Alberto Giacometti
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… — Octavio Paz
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom… — Ludwig von Mises
Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud. — Pat Buchanan
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas
What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich… — Maurice Strong
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
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

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