If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by…

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints Of the North have earned thiscrumb by their complaints.

— Mason Cooley

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

The barbarians come out at night.

— J. M. Coetzee

“What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in the senate? Why do…

— Constantine Cavafy

“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But…

— Kenneth Clark

“In the end, the world and its civilization had not been destroyed by the purging flames of Heaven; instead it rotted away from the…

— Sakyo Komatsu

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

— Wallace Stevens

“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”

— Anonymous

If human civilization were to be destroyed and its cities wiped off the map, there would be an easy way for future intelligent life-forms…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

— Emile M. Cioran

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

— Angela Carter

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization…

— Will Durant

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that…

— Jeb Bush

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton