Annihilation Quote by Charles Eisenstein

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend…

— Paul Hawken

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

— Theodore Roosevelt

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already…

— Jaggi Vasudev

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

— Ronald Wright

To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization, taking down…

— Derrick Jensen

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos,…

— Anonymous