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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change  (Civilizations Quotes) Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation  (Civilizations Quotes) In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates  (Civilizations Quotes) The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization  (Civilizations Quotes) Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is  (Civilizations Quotes) Civilizations founded upon polygamy have always given way to those founded upon monogamy. Polygamy weakens men and diminishes the charm of the community in which it is practiced; and in any case it is foreign to the tastes and requirements of our modern women  (Civilizations Quotes) ... Empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels  (Civilizations Quotes) In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society  (Civilizations Quotes) Prentice: It’s a fascinating theory, sir, and cleverly put together. Does it tie in with known facts? Rance: That need not cause us undue anxiety. Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts  (Civilizations Quotes) But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy  (Civilizations Quotes) When civilizations collide, it usually isn’t the more primitive one that prevails  (Civilizations Quotes) I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died  (Civilizations Quotes) I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills  (Civilizations Quotes) In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war  (Civilizations Quotes) Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained  (Civilizations Quotes) The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it  (Civilizations Quotes) It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe  (Civilizations Quotes) Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now  (Civilizations Quotes) I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities  (Civilizations Quotes) We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it’s in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we’re seeing the current manifestations of  (Civilizations Quotes) All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion  (Civilizations Quotes) Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny  (Civilizations Quotes) Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.  (Civilizations Quotes) I said I didn’t respect religion... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can’t answer... So I don’t respect our religions either. But I do believe it is a clash of civilizations, absolutely, between the Islamic world and the Western world. It has been going on for 1,000 years.  (Civilizations Quotes) 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.  (Civilizations Quotes) Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They’re remembered by the arts.  (Civilizations Quotes) The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.  (Civilizations Quotes) Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.  (Civilizations Quotes) I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.  (Civilizations Quotes) I don’t actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.  (Civilizations Quotes)
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