Civilization Quote by Samuel P. Huntington

I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others…

— Jimmy Carter

“Fundamentalism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs, which have always caused hatred, bloodshed and divided…

— Mouloud Benzadi

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

— Charles Ives

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

— Josip Broz Tito

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

— Jean-Francois Cope

“Outside, most people knew that decades ago, the religious fundamentalists lost the ability to transform society when they became a political movement. Their boycotts…

— Sigmund Brouwer

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

— Morgan Parker

I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, "The conditions for the possibility of social movements have been…

— Cornel West

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?”

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

— Bertrand Russell