Ancient 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Fall

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• Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Happiness, Death, Lost Love

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• The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

  David Kim

  Civilization, Issues, World

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

  David Gemmell

  Civilization, Fantasy Stories, Looks

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• 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

  Civilization, Trying, Study

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• In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Slave Labor, Civilization, Twenties

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.

  Cassius Dio

  Men, Rome, Blood

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• Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Air, Egypt, Civilization

  Cheikh Anta Diop (1989). “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth Or Reality”, p.12, Chicago Review Press

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• If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Eye, Artist, Self

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.31, Penguin

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• I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Philosophy, Latin, Civilization

  "O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Jonathan Valania, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.

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• The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Government, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.8, Rajpal & Sons

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• Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Islands

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• On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

  P. E. Cleator

  Civilization, Dying, Crumbling

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• How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.

  Arundhati Roy

  Blood, Kashmir, World

  Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.scoop.co.nz. November 8, 2002.

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• Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Pride, Past

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• And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Civilization, Gdp, Ties

  "The house: its origins and evolution".

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• Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

  Nicolas Cage

  Easter, Islands, Civilization

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - NATIONAL TREASURE: Book of Secrets". Press conference, collider.com. December 19, 2007.

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• If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Years, Civilization, Honor

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals, with a biographical sketch by F. V. Greene. Administration”

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• Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Christian, Religious, Unique

  "Syria: Is the World Waiting for Genocide?" by Ahmed Zewail, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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