America Quote by Harold Rosenberg

“America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.”

— Walter A. McDougall

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack…

— Haruki Murakami

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

— Louis de Bernieres

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“History is a drop in humanity’s bucket of time. The period we usually call “history” takes up the last five thousand years. By its…

— David W. Tollen

“Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice…

— Dean Koontz

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than…

— Louis L'Amour

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and…

— Mary Russell Mitford

There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization.…

— Marianne Williamson

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of…

— Frank Fairfield

“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding…

— Stephen Hawking

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

— Arthur Helps