Believe Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline. “Civilizations,” Toynbee…

— Carrie Gress

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

— V. S. Naipaul

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

— Carl Sagan

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a…

— Henry Miller

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

— Paul Valery

For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of…

— Peter Kingsley

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

— Rod Serling

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose…

— Ivan Turgenev