All Time Famous Ancient Civilizations Quotes

Ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, Greece, Rome, China, and the Maya flourished before the Middle Ages. Mesopotamia, known as the “cradle of civilization,” birthed the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Egypt, along the Nile, left a legacy of monumental architecture, hieroglyphs, and mummification. The Indus Valley boasted urban planning and advanced culture. Greece birthed democracy and philosophical thought, while Rome’s empire spanned continents, leaving a legacy of law and engineering. China’s dynasties showcased technological prowess, while the Maya in Mesoamerica left behind advanced mathematics and calendars. These civilizations collectively shaped human history with their innovations and legacies.

Ancient Civilizations Quotes

1. “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

2. “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

3. “The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.”
— David Kim

4. “If you look at any ancient civilization, they’ve all used fantasy stories to train the young.”
— David Gemmell

5. “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

6. “In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.”
— Nikola Tesla

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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