Ascendancy Quote by Bernhard von Bulow

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

— Rick Yancey

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

— Ernst Haeckel

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

— Mark Twain

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

— Russell Kirk

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

— William Harvey

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

— Gutzon Borglum

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

— Ernst Haeckel