All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes base civilization early
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. Kenneth Clark abstractarouseart Change image and share on social
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. Kenneth Clark architectureforeseegothic Change image and share on social
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. Kenneth Clark bombcynicismdestroy Change image and share on social
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. Agnes Repplier civilizationdecencyluxury Change image and share on social
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life. Ishmael Beah begincivilearly Change image and share on social
