Civilization Quote by John Fowles

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and…

— M. C. Escher

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose

— Des Lynam

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

— Joseph Heller

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

— Winston Churchill

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

— Hayao Miyazaki

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization…

— Madame de Stael

“if he had said otherwise. To admit that a thermonuclear catastrophe would be the end of civilization and of the biosphere would be, in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to…

— Issac Marion

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject…

— Thomas A. Edison

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about…

— Rusty Schweickart

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

— Peter Barrett

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

— John F. Kennedy

“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an…

— Iain Pears

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto