Behavior Quote by David Horowitz

Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of…

— Rush Limbaugh

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

— Norman Mailer

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and…

— Leo Tolstoy

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just…

— Michelle Moran

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

— Friedrich Engels

“For almost a thousand years, from before 500 to 1400, the cryptology of Western civilization stagnated.”

— David Kahn

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel…

— Mel Gibson

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay,…

— Naomi Oreskes

It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to…

— Thomas Pynchon

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove…

— Voltaire

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization…

— Madame de Stael