Civilization Quotes
Thoughts on what societies leave behind.
These lines take a wide view of civilization, from questioning claims about lost ancient cultures to noting how useful ideas can curdle over time. Related reading includes History quotes.
Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Culture Quotes
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
Great Quotes
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
History Quotes
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Human Quotes
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
