America Quote by Walter A. McDougall

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

“Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.”

— STEPHANE AUDEGUY

“GEORGE 2048: We like to think of it as one civilization.”

— Ray Kurzweil

“Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.”

— Bruce Charlton

“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”

— Vernor Vinge

“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”

— Georges Clemenceau

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

“Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization evolve to new heights. Humans soar on the wings…

— Adam Burch

“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

“Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of…

— Jules Verne

“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.”

— Fernand Braudel