Quote by Douglas Preston

“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

“Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the…

— Douglas Preston

“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.”

— Fernand Braudel

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

“This is the story of the end of the world, the rise and fall of human civilization, the creation of the Partials and the…

— Dan Wells

“Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”

— H.G. Wells

“One catastrophe at a time...”

— Birgit Von Schondorf

“So it was like that now, catastrophe inevitable at the most empty moments. Everyone waiting, almost wanting it, a secret, guilty desire for meaning.…

— Maggie Helwig

“Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We…

— Roger Kimball

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has…

— Sigmund Freud

“Centuries of dire prophecy have taught us all to be, well, unconvinced. And there have been decades, entire scores of years when, to be…

— Scott Cairns