Civilization Quote by Christian Lous Lange

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Niall Ferguson

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

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

— Pierre Schaeffer

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

“Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

— Joel Salatin

The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of…

— Arthur Demarest

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including…

— Douglas Preston