Art Quote by Bryan Ward-Perkins

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities…

— Aime Cesaire

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

— Saint John Chrysostom

The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world…

— Hassan al-Banna

“The Decline of Western Civilization Part II”

— Anonymous

“But as nothing, Western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to Westernise amounted mostly to the erasure of the past;…

— Orhan Pamuk

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

— Paul Harris

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

— Noah Feldman

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of…

— Anonymous

Every empire eventually falls.

— Michael Douglas

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ……

— Edward Albee

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

— Ralph Nader

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan