Civilization Quote by Sister Nivedita

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

“These cultures come and go for a boundless enthusiasim for histories that might have never existed”

— J.J. Ratter

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“younger generations have a more international mindset”

— Jean Tirole

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

— Herman Bavinck

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

— Lucy Freeman

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“Future generations would take the advances for granted”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

“We need to think hard about what we really want so as to avoid endangering ourselves – especially now that we can not only…

— Read trepreneur

“One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem…

— John Carey