Civilization Quote by Bill Whittle Download Open image “Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.” — Bill Whittle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Fall Gates People Sanctuary
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 Copy Share Image
In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal. — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you. — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President. — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about. — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed the beast… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
