Cause Quote by Charles Krauthammer

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

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

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

— William S. Lind

“Then again, given that human history appears to be defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites, and if we are…

— Laura Knight-Jadczyk

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Henry George

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

— Niall Ferguson

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

— Melvin B. Tolson

“People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it…

— Frank Herbert

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men…

— E. Digby Baltzell