Ability Quote by Derrick Jensen

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

— Henry George

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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

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

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but…

— Freya Stark

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

— Varg Vikernes

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of…

— Niall Ferguson

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the…

— Pope Francis

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

— John McDonnell