Active Quote by Cyril Connolly

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor…

— Cyril Connolly

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

— Aidan Chambers

“Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization”

— Stjepan Mestrovic

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

— Haruki Murakami

Only those who have studied the past can create history in the present; can predict the future. Such history should be science-based fact.

— M. K. Stalin

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of…

— Charles Baudelaire

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its…

— Roger Scruton