Civilization Quote by Alycia Debnam-Carey

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

— Jacob Needleman

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

— Anais Nin

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

— Gail Bradbrook

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

— Marya Hornbacher

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

— Havelock Ellis

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

— Tony Blair

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

— Christina Ricci

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

— Niki de St. Phalle

Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to…

— Charles Eisenstein

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are…

— Elizabeth Kolbert