Civilization Quote by Ariel Durant

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

— Edmund Burke

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her…

— Will Durant

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

— Thomas Carlyle

We conquer, not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer by continuing.

— George H Morrison

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

— Pierre Corneille

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

— Emile M. Cioran

“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.”

— Pierce Brown

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

— John Adams

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

— Alexander the Great

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

— William Harvey

Conquered, we conquer.

— Plautus