I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
