Civilization Quote by Gutzon Borglum Download Open image “Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.” — Gutzon Borglum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Civilizations Predecessor Success
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 Copy Share Image
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ten thousand years from now our civilization will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the earth. They… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are but lower… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson,… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it is only… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
