Sentence examples for civilisations are from inspiring English sources

Or maybe not, for as Tainter writes: "Civilisations are fragile, impermanent things". Are modern societies vulnerable?

"All great civilisations are based on parochialism," he wrote.

"All great civilisations are built on parochialism," wrote the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh in 1952.

The strongest civilisations are those without memory - those capable of complete forgetfulness.

Almost no technologically mature civilisations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours.

And the rest, as the cliché has it, is history.Even irrigated civilisations are not, however, immune from climate change.

"The history of weak civilisations contacting more advanced civilisations is not a happy one," he said.

The clash of civilisations is continuing to bear new fruit.

It would be ironic if civilisations were destroyed by the carbon footprint from filming Civilisations.

It is as if the real "clash of civilisations" were that between Europe and America.

The surest sign of a real clash of civilisations is mutual incomprehension.