Civilizations Quotes

168 Civilizations quotes by 142 unique authors

The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What's the whole Universe for and all this huge amount of space… — David Berg
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for… — Gayl Jones
Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head. — Mark Twain
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity. — Diane Ackerman
ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia and… — Jiang Zemin
Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be… — Diane Ravitch
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually… — Samuel P. Huntington
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere… — Theodore Roosevelt
We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and… — John Muir
We civilizations now know ourselves mortal. — Paul Valery
If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed,… — Paul Davies
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of… — Henry Louis Gates
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations,… — Freeman Dyson
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. — William Feather
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms.… — Sam Harris
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity… — Nathan Myhrvold
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art.… — David Sedaris
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were… — Haile Selassie
Art is the signature of civilizations. — Beverly Sills
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are… — Antonio Tabucchi
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. — Arnold J. Toynbee
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers… — Howard Rheingold

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