“ America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. Walter A. McDougall
“ 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
“ In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom… Eduardo Galeano
“ And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out where you went in. For a million years the race has gone on monotonously propagat… Mark Twain
“ Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and rem… Adam-Troy Castro
“ The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles. Samuel R. Delany
“ Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves. David P. Goldman
“ The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, a… Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“ The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent. Toba Beta
“ A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Sto… Ben Okri
“ Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we fi… Nick Bostrom
“ But it’s a pretense, it’s artificial,” Adelia protested. “Love, honor, respect. When are they ever extended to everyday women? I doubt if that boy actually practices what he’s singing. It’s… it’s a pl… Ariana Franklin
“ Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. T… Suzy Kassem
“ Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin sisters of terrestrial and celestial physics ha… David Brewster
“ But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who tr… Robert Graves
“ Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being. Altiero Spinelli
“ It wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have used it upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it....wh… Don Marquis
