Pessimistic Quote by Arthur Demarest

The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of…

— Arthur Demarest

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war…

— Rutger Bregman

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the…

— Mark Zandi

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live…

— Jose Saramago

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and…

— Oliver DeMille

“Do you think Western Civilization has come to an end? "We are clearly going through a cultural crisis at the moment. It's a phase…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot…

— Bjorn Lomborg

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

— Ron Currie Jr

Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us…

— Robertson Davies

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

— Niall Ferguson

I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so…

— Frances Fox Piven