Avenues Quote by Joe Robert Cole

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…

— Jacob Burckhardt

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against…

— Hamid Dabashi

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places -…

— Frederick Lenz

I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the…

— Frederick Lenz

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

— Keorapetse Kgositsile

The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to…

— Walter Salles

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an…

— Nathan Myhrvold

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

— Bertrand Russell

“Contrary to the central belief of multiculturalists, Western culture has achieved far more than other cultures in many significant spheres and has done so…

— Nicholas Wade

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and…

— Richard Wright