« All Civilizations Quotes · Stefan Halper's Page
Civilizations Quotes by Stefan Halper
More Civilizations Quotes
- We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop… — Allan Bloom
- Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad
- All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow… — Rita Mae Brown
- 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
- 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
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Unknown Author
- Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
- By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford
- The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson
- Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch
- From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger