Civilizations Quotes

You are a member of the elite SPECTRE group. ... [As] you lead your elite team across hostile alien worlds, you uncover a [grave] threat, one that will thrust all living beings into a galaxy-wide battle for survival against a race of gigantic, super-intelligent machines. Through your actions, you will bring about the emergence of the human race onto the galactic stage, ultimately determining the survival and destiny of entire civilizations. - Casey Hudson

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. - Antonio Tabucchi

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life. - Octavio Paz

We stand united and continue to urge the city council, Mayor Bloomberg, all elected officials and judges not to attempt to alter or redefine traditional marriage, which has been one of the main cornerstones of all civilizations for thousands of years. - Michel Faulkner

We shouldn't act in way that, at the end, terrorist groups will be strengthened and not weakened, because they want to drive us into a war of the civilizations... We should react in a wise way based on a multilateral approach and based on the coalition in the war against terror. - Joschka Fischer

We should respect the right of all countries to independently choose their own development paths, promote greater dialogue and exchanges among civilizations in the spirit of democracy and equality. - Hu Jintao

We see the Silk Road as a symbol of cultural discovery and exchange, and the project uses artistic expression to nurture creativity similar to what was found on the road in ancient times. We're trying to serve as a common resource for musicians drawing on both ancient and current civilizations along the road. - Laura Freid

We are two people who met and fell in love because we have the same ideal. And all my life and all his life and our life together is just a big effort to try to create a dialogue between civilizations. - Mariane Pearl

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. - Allan Bloom

To achieve the goal of modernization, China has to open up to the world and borrow the fruits of all civilizations of human being. - Wen Jiabao