Artistic Quote by Aime Cesaire

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of…

— Rush Limbaugh

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

— Walter Bagehot

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be…

— Ian Mcewan

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

— John Muir

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries,…

— Walter Kasper

The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by…

— Theodore Roosevelt

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

— Thomas Carlyle