Boundaries Quote by Howard Zinn

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They…

— Thor Heyerdahl

“The central assertion of this book is that the world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes, and inquiries that disassemble…

— Eric R. Wolf

“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a critical mass…

— Anonymous

“How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out this origin and this misty shroud of delusion in order…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples…

— Sigmund Freud

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“GEORGE 2048: We like to think of it as one civilization.”

— Ray Kurzweil

We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance…

— Al Gore

We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place…

— Edward F Edinger

All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral…

— Subcomandante Marcos

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage…

— Peter Kreeft

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number…

— Christian Lous Lange