Arguing Quote by Samuel P. Huntington

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

— John Boyd Orr

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon which a…

— Butler Shaffer

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes…

— John Boyd Orr

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

— Diane Ackerman

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until…

— Carroll Quigley

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed…

— Elon Musk

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

— Anodea Judith