Civilization Quote by Charles Darwin

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Most nations argue that they are a natural and eternal entity, created in some primordial epoch by mixing the soil of the motherland with…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Minor segments of earlier history may have been rescued or 'retrieved' -- e.g. Greek 'democracy,' Aristotle, the Magna Carta, etc. -- but these remain…

— Wael B. Hallaq

“In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were…

— George Hodges

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys…

— Henry Grady Weaver

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

— Bertrand Russell

The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world…

— Hassan al-Banna

“Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons -…

— Andrei Codrescu

Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy…

— Victor Davis Hanson