Top 23 Quotes About Old Civilizations
#1. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.
George Orwell
#2. Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in The Omniconstant
Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis
#3. Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill.
Gene Doucette
#4. He stood above me, his body visibly trembling.
"This is forever.
A.L. Jackson
#5. If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#6. One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.
Maupertuis
#7. The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.
Brian Acton
#8. There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.
Chuck Zito
#9. You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is not some other kind of creature than we are. Whiteness is not sacred. It can't on defining everything.
Sue Monk Kidd
#10. Roasted sweet potatoes are like illicit sex in the old Chinese saying, "Having it isn't as good as not having it." The smell is better than the taste. When you smell it, you feel you must have one, but once you actually sink your teeth into it, you find it's not really anything special.
Qian Zhongshu
#11. Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
Herman Wouk
#12. 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
#13. I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
#14. When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.
Derren Brown
#16. The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.
Joseph McCabe
#17. Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause
Jumping in the Puddles of Life
Loretta Livingstone
#18. One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.
Ellen Stofan
#19. Education is a tender garden, whereas ignorance is weeds. History - the old history - was full of examples proving that, when civilizations fell, learning was the first thing to disappear.
Anonymous
#20. There's no such thing as a mistake
we do it! There's no such thing as an accident
we do it!.
Lester Levenson
#21. Her grief was like the evening sun behind the trees when you ride your bicycle west: sometimes you get a glimpse between the branches, or you hit a bump in the road, and the sudden blaze of sun in your eyes hurts so much, it blinds you. But mostly you're just riding quietly along in the dusk. She
Katherine Catmull
#22. I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.
Denis McDonough
#23. Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.
Duke Kahanamoku
