381 Civilization Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. Huston Smith

Religion Own Claim Brought Civilization Civilizations Look Known Said Revelations Were Being Different Commonly Each Now Deeper

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. Ida B. Wells

Law Took Emergency Civilization Disappeared Thus Longer Until Territories Spread West Existing Gradually Orderly Place Processes Sway Far Held

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. Imre Kertesz

Changed Civilization Opinion Holocaust European Trauma

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. Isaac Mayer Wise

Great Progress Problems Difficulties Thousand Would Solved Disturbed Spirit More Civilization Had Imposed Been Years Years Ago Middle Being Middle Ages Hebrews Which Ages Now

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization. J. G. Stedman

Best Myself Will Sorry Too Say Those Correspond Pretend Case Civilization Seldom Most Doctrine Greatest Am Friend Nations Which Profess Who Actions Whose Ever Amongst

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun

Age Rise Risen Civilization Stone Stone Age Again

Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. Jamais Cascio

Water Wind Dams Changing Our Earth Deforestation Has-Been Civilization Detriment Environment Droughts Alter Occasionally Been Often Human Human Civilization Patterns Creating Cycles Even Deserts Millennia

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. James Henry Breasted

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. James Henry Breasted

History Experience Complete Framework Recognition Record Civilization Resulted Within Inevitably Human Which Human Experience Human History Inclusion Conquest

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. James Henry Breasted

Life Time Knowledge First Universe Our Evolution Carries Case Civilization Attained Had Highest Advent Globe First Time Any Represents Ascent Which Anywhere Processes Far Us

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. James Henry Breasted

Doubt Mediterranean Corner No Doubt Born Seems Civilization Writer Facts Study Leave Southeast Available Now Present Careful

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. James Lovelock

Long Civilization Got Form Present

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. James Norman Hall

Civilization Decay Suffers

It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those. James Salter

War Art Great Me Sports Sometimes Men Beauty Other Those Hunting About Seem Seems Civilization Crude Masculinity Talk Real Discount Listen Essential Manhood Which Fights Even Include Presence

I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system. Jeff Bezos

Me School Solar Made Sense Right Place Our Solar System System High Inside High School Seemed Civilization Clear Soon Read Were Very Expanding Times Frontier Place Planetary Multiple Right

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

I just think we're on this rock orbiting a sun that's going to go out, and I don't know that human society is necessarily a wonderful thing for the planet. I think people can be kind to one another and share things, but I don't know that this particular iteration of civilization is to be preferred to any other. Jesse Ball

People Wonderful Be Kind Think Society Other Sun Out Kind Civilization Share Particular Know Another Rock Go Wonderful Thing Any Going Human Just Preferred Planet Human Society Thing Things Necessarily

I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America. Joe Biden

I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails. John Burroughs

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture. John Eccles

Culture Our Civilization Brains Owe Predecessors Inheritance

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