Culture Quote by Michael D. O'Brien

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin

“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”

— Eugène Delacroix

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

“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.”

— Thoreau

“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our assumptions about…

— Greg McKeown

“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.”

— Haruki Murakami

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are…

— Doris Lessing

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.

— Manmohan Singh

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying…

— Will Durant

“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important…

— Jacques Ellul

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker