Civilization Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the…

— Henry Fuseli

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“When the Greeks were free they created a civilization advanced beyond anything else in the world. When Rome imposed its imperial rule all across…

— Rodney Stark

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

— Albert Einstein

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

— W. H. Auden

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

— Oscar Wilde

“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed.”

— H.D.F. Kitto

“In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were…

— George Hodges

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

— David Kim

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

— Oliver Stone

“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of Greek learning…

— James John Courtenay

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

— Carl Sagan