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We civilizations now know ourselves mortal. — Paul Valery

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. — L. Ron Hubbard

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being? — Unita Blackwell

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death — Octavio Paz

Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud. — Pat Buchanan

Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage. — Girdhar Joshi

It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe. — Robert K. G. Temple

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates — Michel Foucault

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. — W. H. Auden

If you want to conquer civilizations, restructure their languages.
Long time ago, even god used this strategy to rule over mankind. — Toba Beta

The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind. — Rose Macaulay

He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her. — Lisa Kessler

That's what people do. They pick up the pieces of what they have and move on. Civilizations were built on this very principle. — Kunal Nayyar

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

Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates. — Bill Whittle

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant

Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations. — Mohsin Hamid

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. — Andrew Sarris

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin — H.W. Brands

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations. — Luiz Bolognesi

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world. — P. E. Cleator

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. — Hans Hofmann

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton

Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient civilizations. — Ninotaziz

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history. — Vernor Vinge

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. — Eric Ambler

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving. — M.I.A.

The flying serpent figure is ancient civilizations' way of creeping onto the throne of the Upper Heavens to claim its authority. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations. — Frederick Lenz

Art is the signature of civilizations. — Beverly Sills

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine. — Christopher Dutton

Civilizations ... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs. — Harry G. Frankfurt

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity. — Diane Ackerman

Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all too well. — Michael D. O'Brien

Civilizations rose and fell and in the end everything was dust and sand. Nothing beside remained. Hotels, maybe. — Kate Atkinson

On the day of the universe's Last Judgment, two humans and a robot belonging to the Earth and Trisolaran civilizations embraced each other in ecstasy. — Liu Cixin

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. — Charles Lindbergh

Not the kind of love that was fueled by need and that destroyed cities and entire civilizations, but the kind that rebuilt them, that much I knew. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature . They can't help it. — Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. — Carl Sagan

Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity. — Steven Erikson

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle. — Russell Kirk

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki

And I cried ... for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. — Carlisle Floyd

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers. — Stephane Audeguy

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. — Robert Kiyosaki

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

We create beautiful and lasting things, build vast civilizations." "Gorgeous evasions," he said. "Great escapes. — Don DeLillo

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. — William Feather

Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations. — Toba Beta

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. — Walter A. McDougall

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head. — Mark Twain

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. — Bernhard Von Bulow

America didn't bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. — A.A. Gill

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. — Arnold Toynbee

Long time ago, many pre-human civilizations had developed so advanced
into a level where most people today assume them simply as works of nature. — Toba Beta

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? — Maurice Strong

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. — Kenneth W. Harl

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering. — Kane Freeman

Empires collapse,
Civilizations disappear,
Health deteriorates
And bodies turn to ash,
But life will always go on — Mouloud Benzadi

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies. — Satya Nadella

Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations. — H.P. Lovecraft

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?' — Mahatma Gandhi

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences. — Haruki Murakami

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. — Shirin Ebadi

Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed. — Marty Rubin

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. — Bill Bryson

The map showed human places I'd never heard of - places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn't theirs to claim. — Anne Bishop

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power. — Frederick Lenz

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. — Rita Mae Brown

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. — Rick Yancey

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. — Carl Sagan

Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order. — Stefan Halper

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time. — Vernor Vinge

It is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy — Philip Kerr

Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations. — Toba Beta

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. — David K. Shipler

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. — John Ralston Saul

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. — Ron Suskind

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless ... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke