Quotation Explorer - 'Civilizations'

Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in "The Omniconstant - Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis
All civilizations have needed a stable basis of short term value. - Jay Weiser
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. - C.S. Lewis
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. - William Feather
You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way. - Will Rogers
Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed. - Marty Rubin
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering. - Kane Freeman
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. - Arnold Toynbee
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. - Arnold Toynbee
People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. - Toba Beta
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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