Civilization Quote by Unita Blackwell

“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

“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

“In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the…

— Leon Uris

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by…

— Charles Lindbergh

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They…

— Thor Heyerdahl

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

— Louis St. Laurent

“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality…

— Louis L'Amour

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

— Gertrude Atherton