Civilization Quote by Diane Ackerman

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew…

— Johan Huizinga

Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We…

— Carlos Barrios

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes…

— John Boyd Orr

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them…

— Johan Huizinga

We think we can play a small part in the evolution of culture.

— Miguel McKelvey

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and…

— Samuel P. Huntington

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in…

— Terence McKenna

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

— Herbert Read

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

— Arthur C. Clarke