Quotes About Civilization

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

History is a great dust heap.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

History is everything that has ever happened.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

History is as much an art as a science.