Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Will Durant

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Will Durant

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

Will Durant

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Samuel P. Huntington

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

Samuel P. Huntington

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Winston Churchill

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

William Walker

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

Will Rogers

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

Will Rogers

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

Zahi Hawass

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.

Zahi Hawass

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

Zhou Shengxian

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

William Harvey

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

William E. Gladstone

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

William E. Gladstone

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

Wendell Berry

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

Wendell Berry

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Walter Mosley

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Yoko Ono

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.