Balloons Quote by Austin O'Malley

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

— Edward Abbey

“Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

— Albert Einstein

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Niall Ferguson

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

— Frank Gehry

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.”

— Bruce Brander

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

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

— Denis Hayes