#civilizations

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fight-for #live-for #religion #sun #music

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. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#civilizations #clash #experience #frenchmen #i

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. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#after #arts #civilizations #gift #gifts

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

— William Feather

#found #happiness #indictments #intelligence #person

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

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #civilizations #contact #dust #intimate

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilized #only #those #understood #who

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

#ancient #civilizations #decline #died #find

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#arose #between #both #both sides #bridge

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

— Bernhard von Bulow

#civilizations #development #fight #history #law