If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
如果人类的生命可以用几年,意识形态在数十年,国家在几个世纪内来衡量,那么衡量文明的单位就是各国之间的相互作用,那就是千年。
阿卜杜拉齐兹·布特弗利卡