Aggressive Quote by Carl Sagan

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though…

— Mary Summer Rain

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

— Charles Krauthammer

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires…

— Lisa Joy

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed…

— Andrew Harvey

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

— Jacob Needleman

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert