Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse…

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die.…

— Paul Watson

In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic…

— Mark A. Rayner

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed…

— Arthur Henderson

“From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer…

— Wendy McClure

“Science has not given men more self-control, more kindliness, or more power of discounting their passions in deciding upon a course of action. It…

— Anonymous

“New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as…

— Saul Bellow

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

— Austin O'Malley

The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary…

— Alan Bock

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many…

— Rudy Giuliani

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not…

— Kim Chernin

I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture…

— Anonymous

We can't have a government that will collapse in three months.

— Leo Varadkar